Estimating the Benefits of Public Recreation Sites in Illinois

The remarkable growth in outdoor recreation activity has created a need for a method of estimating the economic value of the enjoyment that consumers obtain from using recreational facilities and resources. In the case of recreation where prices seldom exist, the market fails to register the value of the recreation opportunities consumed; therefore indirect evaluation methods are required to estimate the benefits of recreation. Several methods have been developed to measure recreation benefits. Typically these have been applied to individual sites as if they are in isolation. This situation does not characterize recreation facilities in Illinois where the topology and the high geographical concentration offer the consumer a number of relatively homogeneous recreation sites. In this context it is ill-advised to calculate recreation benefits for each recreation site as if it were a separate entity and a method is ellaborated, in this dissertation, as a first attempt to consider all sites simultaneously.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Leisure Studies

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Zalatan, Antoine

• Recreation

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8127739

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/67823