Managing Air Quality And Scenic Resources At National Parks And Wilderness Areas

by Robert D. Rowe

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367020224
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/17/2019
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of 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 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