Parks and Carrying Capacity. Commons without tragedy. 2007. illustr. 328 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

Determining the carrying capacity of parks and related areas is aperennial question whose urgency grows each year as the number of visitscontinues to increase. This book represents a comprehensive assessmentof the issue, as offers a historical and conceptual treatment ofcarrying capacity, describes and illustrates research approaches forassessing carrying capacity, including qualitative and quantitativesurveys, normative theory and methods, visual research approaches,trade-off analysis, and simulation modeling, and examines managementalternatives for limiting the environmental and social impacts ofvisitor use.It discusses the broader question of environmental management and howthe issue of carrying capacity can be applied more generally. Ahardcover edition is available as well.