The Gulf Recreation Study: Assessing Lost Recreational Trips from the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill

Tourangeau, Roger; English, Eric; McConnell, Kenneth E.; Chapman, David; Cervantes, Ismael Flores; Horsch, Eric; Meade, Norman; Domanski, Adam; Welsh, Michael

doi:10.1093/jssam/smx010

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“…Potential beneficiaries can be counted with various approaches, including direct counts, user surveys, spatial estimation approaches, or modeled estimates based on 1 or more of these approaches (White et al ; Garcia and Smith ; Mazzotta et al ; Allan et al ; Leggett ; Tourangeau et al ). The RBI use a spatial approach, which requires an understanding of how people and services interact within the landscape.…”

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Evaluating the ecosystem services and benefits of wetland restoration by use of the rapid benefit indicators approach

Mazzotta¹,

Bousquin

Berry³

et al. 2018

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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Wetlands in urban and urbanizing areas are often smaller, more degraded, and subject to more stressors than those in undeveloped locations. Their restored level of functioning may never equal that of a site in an undisturbed landscape. Yet, the social benefits from restoring these wetlands may be significant because of the relative scarcity of wetlands and natural areas in urban settings and also the large number of people who may benefit. In this study, we have outlined a systematic approach to compiling nonmonetary indicators of wetlands restoration benefits: The Rapid Benefit Indicators (RBI) Approach. The RBI approach is grounded in economic theory and compatible with methods used by environmental economists to value ecosystem services. We illustrate the RBI approach with a comparison of 2 sites within the Woonasquatucket River Watershed in Rhode Island. As an urbanizing watershed, the Woonasquatucket illustrates how decisions may differ when based primarily on evaluations of ecological functioning versus those that incorporate benefits to people. It demonstrates how small urban sites with relatively low ecological function can provide large social benefits. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2019;15:148-159. Published 2018. This article is a US Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating the ecosystem services and benefits of wetland restoration by use of the rapid benefit indicators approach

Mazzotta¹,

Bousquin

Berry³

et al. 2018

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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“…Policy-makers and managers desire information on the economic losses from natural disturbances that alter the conditions or availability of recreation resources. Losses might be estimated for specific events, such as major fires or the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (Tourangeau et al 2017), or more general changes, such as those from climate change (Kanazawa, Wilson, and Holmberg 2018). Because of how the visit estimates are developed, NVUM data have been used internally within the Forest Service to estimate the loss in recreation visits in response to wildfires and post-fire area closures.…”

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A Review of the Forest Service's National Visitor Use Monitoring (NVUM) Program

English¹,

White²,

Bowker³

et al. 2019

Agric. Resour. Econom. Rev.

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The National Visitor Use Monitoring (NVUM) program data underlies estimates of the volume of recreation use of the National Forest System. The data also enable estimation of both the local economic contributions and nonmarket benefits of that visitation. Applications include evaluating the effects of natural disasters, site characteristics, and climate change, as well as expenditure and benefit transfers. This article describes the history and science background of the NVUM program, outlines the methods used in estimating market and nonmarket economic outcomes, and lists some examples of results found in the literature.

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“…Observational counts are time consuming and expensive to conduct and traditional survey approaches have their own sampling complications for estimating visitation. Therefore, it is often unknown how many and what types of people visit natural areas-critical information for managers or researchers to apply in natural resource damage assessments, park and urban planning, economic valuation studies, tourism studies, as well as to inform many other management decisions [2][3].…”

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“…Often, the need to obtain visitation information arises after an event has occurred, making the before and after comparison difficult [3]. These eventbased data collections are also resource intensive [2].…”

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Using data derived from cellular phone locations to estimate visitation to natural areas: An application to water recreation in New England, USA

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We introduce and validate the use of commercially available human mobility datasets based on cell phone locations to estimate visitation to natural areas. By combining this data with on-the-ground observations of visitation to water recreation areas in New England, we fit a model to estimate daily visitation for four months to more than 500 sites. The results show the potential for this new big data source of human mobility to overcome limitations in traditional methods of estimating visitation and to provide consistent information at policy-relevant scales. However, the data providers' opaque and rapidly developing methods for processing locational information required a calibration and validation against data collected by traditional means to confidently reproduce the desired estimates of visitation. We found that with this calibration, the high-resolution information in both space and time provided by cell phone location-derived data creates opportunities for developing next-generation models of human interactions with the natural environment.

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The Gulf Recreation Study: Assessing Lost Recreational Trips from the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill

Cited by 14 publications

References 3 publications

Evaluating the ecosystem services and benefits of wetland restoration by use of the rapid benefit indicators approach

Evaluating the ecosystem services and benefits of wetland restoration by use of the rapid benefit indicators approach

A Review of the Forest Service's National Visitor Use Monitoring (NVUM) Program

Using data derived from cellular phone locations to estimate visitation to natural areas: An application to water recreation in New England, USA

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