Robert D. Rowe

Managing Air Quality and Scenic Resources at National Parks and Wilderness Areas (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an outcome of the Visual Values Workshop in 1982. It presents the ongoing research on state-of-the-art techniques and applications to address the human perception of changes in visual aesthetic resources and to assign psychological, social, and economic measures of value to visitors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429696930
• Artikelnr.: 57207711

Autorenporträt

Rowe, Robert D.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Defining the Experience
Defining the Recreation Experience
Shaping the Visual Experience: Historic Origins of Wilderness and Desert Aesthetic
Interpretation and Visitor Values
Measuring Visual Perceptions
Human Perception of Visual Air Quality (Layered Haze)
Effects of Visual Range on the Beauty of National Parks and Wilderness Area Vistas
Implications of NCAR's Urban Visual Air Quality Assessment Method for Pristine Areas
Psychophysics, Visibility, and Perceived Atmospheric Transparency
Visual Resource Management Systems
The Bureau of Land Management's Visual Resource Management System
Assessing the Reliability, Validity and Generalizability of Observer
Based Visual Impact Assessment Methods for the Western United States
Objective Evaluation of Visual Values
Social and Psychological Approaches to Value Assessment
A Role Theoretic Analysis of Scenic Quality Judgments
Visual Air Quality Values: Public Input and Informed Choice
Social Research Methods for Public Land Managers
An Examination of Methodologies for Assessing the Value of Visibility
Two Examples of Psychological Assessment of Visual Values
Assessing the Effect of Visual Air Quality Degradation on Visitor Enjoyment
Potential Contributions of Canonical Analysis to Visual Value Research
Altering the Visual Quality of a Recreation Resource and Activity Displacement
Economic Approaches to Value Assessment
The Value to Visitors of Improving Visibility at Mesa Verde and Great Smoky National Parks
Economic Valuation of Potential Scenic Degradation at Bryce Canyon National Park
Priorities for Economic Analysis of Visibility Values
Existence and Bequest Value
Existence Value in a Total Valuation Framework
Unrevealed Extramarket Values: Values Outside the Normal Range of Consumer Choices
Management Perspectives and Case Studies
Managing Our Visual Resources
The Importance of Visibility Protection in the National Parks and Wilderness
Protection of the Visual Experience in the Flat Tops Wilderness
The Lake Tahoe Environmental Thresholds Study
Conclusions and Future Directions