This article discusses best practices for implementing recreation demand models. We focus
on insights that research and experience provide for the typical recreation application …

Abstract The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the largest ever in
US waters, eclipsing the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in terms of the sheer quantity of oil …

The National Visitor Use Monitoring (NVUM) program data underlies estimates of the
volume of recreation use of the National Forest System. The data also enable estimation of …

The goal of natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) is to compensate the public for
losses to natural resources from past or ongoing hazardous releases, including losses that …

We introduce and validate the use of commercially available human mobility datasets based
on cell phone locations to estimate visitation to natural areas. By combining this data with on …

When participating in recreation individuals decide on where to go (locations) and when to
participate (which time periods), and they respond to changes in external factors (eg …

Wetlands in urban and urbanizing areas are often smaller, more degraded, and subject to
more stressors than those in undeveloped locations. Their restored level of functioning may …

On-site studies designed to estimate trips to outdoor recreation sites typically rely on either
departure counts at the entrances to those sites or “instantaneous” counts of the number of …

This paper presents research on the economic damages from a hypothetical worst-case oil
spill at the Straits of Mackinac between Lakes Huron and Michigan. This spill could occur …

Welfare measures from travel cost models net out variable costs such as travel expenses
specific to each trip. Costs that are fixed in the short run, such as expenses for equipment …