Written by a former insider, this much-needed study is a comprehensive analysis of how four federal land management agencies - the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service - engage in natural resource planning and how their management can be improved. Integrated Public Lands Management evaluates each agency's planning process and their wildlife habitat models, linear programming, input-output and benefit-cost analyses, using numerous examples to demonstrate how environmental values can be better integrated into current planning and management. Detailed case studies include the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Yosemite National Park. Loomis applies bioeconomic models and non-market resource valuation wilderness allocation decisions, livestock-wildlife tradeoffs on BLM land and national forest management; he stresses the importance of interagency ecosystem planning. The wide range and interdisciplinary approach of Integrated Public Land Management make the book essential reading for students and professionals alike. This unique volume provides an accessible treatment of key federal land management planning techniques for readers with a variety of backgrounds and training.

Integrated Public Lands Management

Loomis, John B.

Business & Money

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Integrated Public Lands Management: Principles and Applications to National Forests, Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and Blm Lands

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Determining the Economic Value of Water: Concepts and Methods

Water provides benefits as a commodity for agriculture, industry, and households, and as a public good such as fisheries habitat, water quality and recreational use. To aid in cost-benefit analysis under conditions where market determined price signals are usually unavailable, economists have developed a range of alternative valuation methods for measuring economic benefits. This volume provides the most comprehensive exposition to-date of the application of economic valuation methods to proposed water resources investments and policies. It provides a conceptual framework for valuation of both commodity and public good uses of water, addressing non-market valuation techniques appropriate to measuring public benefits - including water quality improvement, recreation, and fish habitat enhancement. The book describes the various measurement methods, illustrates how they are applied in practice, and discusses their strengths, limitations, and appropriate roles. In this second edition, all chapters have been thoroughly updated, and in particular the coverage of water markets and valuation of ecosystem services from water has been expanded. Robert Young, author of the 2005 edition, has been joined for this new edition by John Loomis, who brings additional expertise on ecosystem services and the environmental economics of water for recreational and other public good uses of water.

Young, Robert A.

Economics

Routledge

Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs: America’s Best Investment

This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U.S. National Parks (including monuments, seashores, lakeshores, recreation areas, and historic sites) and National Park Service (NPS) programs. The book develops a comprehensive framework to calculate the economic value of protected areas, with particular application to the U.S. National Park Service. The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs, including on-site visitation, carbon sequestration, and intellectual property such as in education curricula and filming of movies/ TV shows, with case studies of each included. Examples are drawn from studies in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Everglades National Park, and Chesapeake Bay. The editors conclude with a chapter on innovative approaches for sustainable funding of the NPS in its second century. The framework serves as a blueprint of methodologies for conservationists, government agencies, land trusts, economists, and others to value public lands, historical sites, and related programs, such as education. The methodologies are relevant to local and state parks, wildlife refuges, and protected areas in developed and developing countries as well as to national parks around the world. Containing a series of unique case studies, this book will be of great interest to professionals and students in environmental economics, land management, and nature conservation, as well as the more general reader interested in National Parks.

Bilmes, Linda J.

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