List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Rebecca L. Johnson and Gary V. Johnson -- Part I Issues and Perspectives -- The Benefits and Costs of Recreation: Dollars and Sense / George L. Peterson, Beverly L. Driver, and Perry J. Brown - 2 Recreation Management Theory, Economics, and Resource Allocation: A Unifying Perspective / William G. Workman, Scott C. Matulich, and Alan Jubenville - 3 Economic Efficiency and National Forest Planning / Dennis Schweitzer, Frederic Norbury, and Gregory Alward -- The Propriety of Applying Economic Methods to the Allocation of Public Amenity Resources: Paradigms, Property Rights, and Progress / Charles C.

Harris and Mary McGown - 5 Valuing Changes in Environmental Assets / Robin Gregory and Donald MacGregor-- Part II Valuation Theory and Method Development: Progress and . Problems -- 6. The Contingent Valuation Method / Richard C. Bishop and Thomas A. Heberlein -- 7. Contingent Valuation and the Prospect of a Satisfactory Benefit-Cost Indicator / John P. Hoehn -- 8. Theoretical Aspects of Managing a Multi-Use Congestible Resource: New Zealand Backcountry Angling / Geoff N.

Kerr -- 9. A Note on Population Distributions and the Travel Cost Method / Daniel J. Stynes -- Part III Methods and Applications -- 10. Evaluating National Policy Proposals by Contingent Valuation / Alan Randall and Warren Kriesel -- 11. Contingent Valuation of Wildlife Resources in the Presence of Substitutes and Complements / Karl C. Samples and James R. Hollyer -- 12. Contingent Valuation Question Formats: Dichotomous Choice versus Open-Ended Responses / Rebecca L.

Johnson, N. Stewart Bregenzer, and Bo Shelby -- 13. Evaluating the Transferability of Regional Recreation Demand Equations / John Loomis, William Provencher, and William G. Brown -- Author Affiliations.