New Economics of Outdoor Recreation

Edited by Nick Hanley, University of Glasgow, UK, W. Douglass Shaw, formerly Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, US and Robert E. Wright, University of Glasgow, UK

• Contents: 1. Introduction Part I: The Mountains 2. Valuing Rock Climbing and Bouldering Access 3. Using Economic Instruments to Manage Access to Rock-Climbing Sites in the Scottish Highlands 4. Valuing Recreational Resources using Choice Experiments: Mountaineering in Scotland 5. Are Climbers Fools? Modeling Risky Recreation 6. Non-Participation, Demand Intensity and Substitution Effects in an Integrable Demand System: The Case of Day Trips to the North-Eastern Alps 7. Modelling Choice and Switching Behaviour Between Scottish Ski Centres Part II: Forests 8. Spatial Distribution versus Efficiency Effects of Forest Recreation Policies Using a Regional Travel Cost Model 9. Perceptions versus Objective Measures of Environmental Quality in Combined Revealed and Stated Preference Models of Environmental Valuation 10. Using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to Estimate and Transfer Recreational Demand Functions 11. Backcountry Recreationists’ Valuation of Forest and Park Management Features in Wilderness Parks of the Western Canadian Shield Part III: Rivers and the Sea 12. A Random Utility Model of Beach Recreation 13. A Finite Mixture Approach to Analyzing Income Effects in Random Utility Models: Reservoir Recreation Along the Columbia River 14. Whalewatching Demand and Value: Estimates from a New ‘Double-Semilog’ Empirical Demand System 15. Estimating Recreational Trout Fishing Damages in Montana’s Clark Fork River Basin: Summary of a Natural Resource Damage Assessment Index