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Contents Page Stephen F. McCool Wilderness Within the Context of Larger Social and Biophysical Systems 1 David N. Cole 1. Overviews 3
John B. Loomis Economic Values of Wilderness Recreation and Passive Use: What We Think We Know at the Beginning of the 21st Century 5
Gundars Rudzitis The Impact of Wilderness and Other Wildlands on Local Economies Rebecca Johnson and Regional Development Trends 14
Peter S. White Disturbance, Scale, and Boundary in Wilderness Management 27 Jonathan Harrod
2. Wilderness Meanings and Debates 43
Chad P. Dawson The Influence of the Adirondacks on the Wilderness Preservation Ed Zahniser Contributions of Robert Marshall and Howard Zahniser 45
Karen M. Fox Navigating Confluences: Revisiting the Meaning of "Wilderness Experience" 49
Paul A. Gray An Ecosystem Approach to Management: A Context for Robert J. Davidson Wilderness Protection 59
Dayle C. Hardy-Short Science, Economics, and Rhetoric: Environmental Advocacy and C. Brant Short the Wolf Reintroduction Debate, 1987-1999 65
Roger W. Kaye The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: An Exploration of the Meanings Embodied in America's Last Great Wilderness 73
Thomas A. More How Valid are Future Generations' Arguments for Preserving James R. Averill Wilderness? 81 Thomas H. Stevens
3. Wilderness Within Larger Ecosystems 87
Gregory Aplet Indicators of Wildness: Using Attributes of the Land to Janice Thomson Assess the Context of Wilderness 89 Mark Wilbert
Mike Bader Wilderness-Based Ecosystem Protection in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States 99
Robert J. Davidson State-of-the-Wilderness Reporting in Ontario: Models, Paul A. Gray Tools and Techniques 111 Sheila Boyd | ||||
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Steffen Fritz New GIS Approaches to Wild Land Mapping in Europe 120 Steve Carver Linda See J. C. Haney Gauging the Ecological Capacity of Southern Appalachian Reserves: M. Wilbert Does Wilderness Matter? 128 C. De Grood D. S. Lee Nathaniel P. Hitt An Evaluation of Wilderness and Aquatic Biointegrity in Western Christopher A. Frissell Montana 138
Laskar Muqsudur Rahman The Sundarbans: A Unique Wilderness of the World 143
Vinod Sasidharan Climatic Change and Wildland Recreation: Examining the Changing Patterns of Wilderness Recreation in Response to the Effects of Global Climate Change and the El Nino Phenomenon 149
Janice L. Thomson Assessing Interconnections Between Wilderness and Adjacent Lands: Dawn A. Hartley The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah 153 Gregory H. Aplet Peter A. Morton 4. Social, Economic, and Policy Issues 167
Carolyn Alkire Funding Strategies for Wilderness Management 169
Craig W. Allin The Triumph of Politics Over Wilderness Science 180
Ralf Buckley Tourism and Wilderness: Dancing With the Messy Monster 186
Ralf Buckley Wilderness in Australia: What's Happening in a World Context 190
Brian Czech Economic Growth, Ecological Economics, and Wilderness Preservation 194
J. Mark Fly Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Wilderness in the Southern Robert Emmet Jones Appalachian Ecoregion 201 H. Ken Cordell
Ville Hallikainen The Finnish "Social Wilderness" 205
J. E. S. Higham Wilderness Perception Scaling in New Zealand: An Analysis of G. W. Kearsley Wilderness Perceptions Held by Users, Non-users and A. D. Kliskey International Visitors 218
David M. Johns Biological Science in Conservation 223
Paul A. Lorah Population Growth, Economic Security, and Cultural Change in Wilderness Counties 230
Pete Morton Wildland Economics: Theory and Practice 238
M. A. Nie A Political Cultural Map to Future Wilderness, Monument and Park Designation 251 | ||||
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Spencer Phillips Windfalls for Wilderness: Land Protection and Land Value in the Green Mountains 258
Brijesh Thapa The Relationship Between Debt-for-Nature Swaps and Protected Area Tourism: A Plausible Strategy for Developing Countries 268
Bryan K. Walton Southern by the Grace of God: Wilderness Framing in the Heart of Dixie 273
5. Dialogue Session Summaries 279
Douglas W. Hodgins From Confrontation to Conservation: The Banff National Park Jeffrey E. Green Experience 281 Gail Harrison Jillian Roulet
Tom McDonald and Canada 290 Leo McAvoy
R. McGreggor Cawley Wilderness, Natural Areas, and Ecological Reserves: Thoughts on the Politics of the Big Outside 295
Laurie Yung Meaningful Community Involvement in Protected Area Issues: A Dialogue Session 301 | ||||
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