Managing air quality and scenic resources at national parks and wilderness areas. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robert D. Rowe and Lauraine G. Chestnut ; foreword by Russell E. Dickenson.
• Editors: Rowe, Robert D, 1949-; Chestnut, Lauraine G, 1953-
• Other Names: United States., National Park Service.; Visual Values Workshop
• Contents: 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 P
• Publisher Details: New York, NY Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.7392; Air quality management -- Congresses; Visual perception -- Congresses; Landscape assessment -- Congresses; National parks and reserves -- United States -- Congresses; Wilderness areas -- United States -- Congresses; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429696930; 0429696930; 9780429050084; 0429050089; 9780429736957; 0429736959; 9780429716942
• Related ISBNs: 042971694X; 9780367020224
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: On-line resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 26, 2019)
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