Introduction Part I: Issues and Perspectives 1. The Benefits and Costs of Recreation: Dollars and Sense 2. Recreation Management Theory, Economics, and Resource Allocation: A Unifying Perspective 3. Economic Efficiency and National Forest Planning Dennis Schweitzer 4. The Propriety of Applying Economic Methods to the Allocation of Public Amenity Resources: Paradigms Property Rights 5. Valuing Changes in Environmental Assets Part II: Valuation Theory and Method Development: Progress and Problems 6. The Contingent Valuation Method 7. Contingent Valuation and the Prospect of a Satisfactory Benefit-Cost Indicator 8.

Theoretical Aspects of Managing a Multi-Use Congestible Resource: New Zealand Backcountry Angling 9. A Note on Population Distributions and the Travel Cost Method Part III: Methods and Applications 10. Evaluating National Policy Proposals by Contingent Valuation 11. Contingent Valuation of Wildlife Resources in the Presence of Substitutes and Complements 12. Contingent Valuation Question Formats: Dichotomous Choice versus Open-Ended Responses 13. Evaluating the Transferability of Regional Recreation Demand Equations.