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Creator:: Grasty, Brent L.
Abstract:: Hedonic Pricing is an effective and versatile method of estimating the relationships between market prices and environmental quality in a world of changing natural resource decisions. One natural resource policy not yet studied using Hedonic Pricing is the protection of free-flowing rivers. As the pressures of development and outdoor recreation...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Moore, Eric M.
Abstract:: Resource managers and decisionmakers must often decide how to allocate and manage conflicting uses of scarce natural resources. In many cases, one use of a natural resource precludes alternative uses of the same resource. In order to make informed decisions regarding the allocation and management of such scarce natural resources,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Shindler, Bruce A.
Abstract:: While resource managers often rely on feedback from recreation users on which to base long-term decisions, displacement (when users dissatisfied with crowding or resource impacts move on to more remote sites) and product shift (users respond to increased densities by changing their definition of the recreation experience) are viewed as...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Kakoyannis, Christina
Abstract:: Conventional natural resource management has struggled with effectively addressing dynamically complex natural resource issues. Many organizations structured in the rational-analytical paradigm of resource management are becoming increasingly aware that new management approaches are needed. Particularly in a rapidly changing environment, organizational learning is important for promoting an organization's ability to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Kim, Young-Hwan
Abstract:: Fuel management has been used as an effective local strategy to reduce the undesirable consequences of wildfires. Many efforts toward scheduling of fuel management activities across a broader landscape have been proposed, with the hope of achieving larger landscape-scale management effects. However, scheduling of fuel management treatments across the broader...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: wildfires. The regular pattern seemed to be the most acceptable for either random ignitions or

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