Assessing economic impacts of recreation, tourism, & related amenity use & development
Principle Investigators:
Dr. John C. Bergstrom, Professor, [E-mail: jberg@uga.edu]
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA;
&
Dr. H. Ken Cordell [E-mail: kcordell@fs.fed.us], USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA
Beginning/Ending Dates: April 10, 2008 thru June 30, 2009
Brief Description:
We define forest amenity benefits as the recreation, tourism and aesthetic benefits of forests. Such benefits include on-site recreation activities (e.g., hiking, camping, birdwatching, nature study, hunting, fishing),
off-site recreational activities supported by forests (e.g., off-site white-water boating, fishing and swimming), and on-site viewshed benefits and off-site viewshed benefits.
Although forest amenity benefits are widely recognized as important benefits of protected forests,
little is know quantitatively about the value of these benefits in terms of the economic impacts
(e.g., investments, revenue, employment, income) of recreation, tourism and other amenity-related
use and development under Montreal Process Indicators 6.1.c, 6.2.a, and 6.3.a.
Objectives:
- Assess revenues from forest amenity benefits as defined above (Montreal Process Indicator 6.1.c); assess investment
and annual expenditures made to support forest amenity benefits as defined above (Montreal Process Indicator 6.2.a);
assess direct employment and income associated with forest amenity benefits (Montreal Process Indicator 6.3.a).;
- Secondary data on forest-related investments and annual expenditures made in support of forest
amenity benefits will be assessed; and
- Secondary data on direct employment and income associated with forest amenity benefits will be assessed.
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