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Site Characteristics and Revealed Preferences for Outdoor Recreation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

J. Walter Milon
J. Walter Milon*
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Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611
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Demand measurement for outdoor recreation has developed on a course that reflects trends in both theoretical economics and recreation policy. The early insights of Hotelling and Clawson and Knetsch express a dominant concern with estimating the demand for a single recreation site and the economic value of publicly provided, new recreation sites. Their theoretical framework was consistent with the emerging public goods theory which viewed recreation sites as homogeneous public goods demanded by homothetic consumers. In light of the emphasis on expanding leisure opportunities and public acquisition of recreational parkland in the national recreation policy of this period, their analysis was timely and an important benchmark for further refinements in measuring the economic value of recreation sites (Burt and Brewer; Cicchetti, Fisher and Smith).

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Research Article
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Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , April 1985 , pp. 14 - 17
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Copyright © 1985 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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