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

Determining the carrying capacity of parks and related areas is a perennial 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 of carrying 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 management alternatives for limiting the environmental and social impacts of visitor use.It discusses the broader question of environmental management and howthe issue of carrying capacity can be applied more generally.