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Estimating Recreation Values Associated With Land Use Changes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Wesley N. Musser
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia
Rod F. Ziemer
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia

Extract

Achieving optimal use of wildlife resources is a classic problem in natural resource economics. Ciriacy-Wantrup argued that wildlife resources are a case of a fugitive resource for which private property rights cannot easily be defined and therefore government policy may be necessary to obtain optimal use [5, pp. 141–145]. Land use planning is one area of government policy in which limited attention has been given to management of wildlife resources. One reason for the neglect may be the lack of emphasis on estimating the value of wildlife recreation experiences associated with particular land uses. An exception is the work of Martin, Tinney, and Gum [16] who did not look at marginal land use changes but did consider the termination of all cattle ranching in Arizona and its effect on recreational and agricultural economic surpluses.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1979

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