The Full Value of Parks: From Economics to the Intangible

by Harmon, David Putney

• ISBN13: 9780742527157
• ISBN10: 0742527158
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

Parks are important economic vehicles, generating billions of dollars worldwide in tourism revenue. However, the reasons for that visitation are found in the non-material, non-economic values that parks offer to people: values that are cultural, therapeutic, scientific, spiritual, recreational, educational, and aesthetic/artistic. The Full Value of Parks is the first comprehensive analysis of these important, but intangible, values.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Intangible Values and Protected Areas: Fundamental Issues
Introduction: Perspectives on the Values of Protected Areas	p. 3
The Source and Significance of Values in Protected Areas	p. 13
Conserving the Sacred: The Protective Impulse and the Origins of Modern Protected Areas	p. 27
Managing the Intangible	p. 43
In-Depth Analysis of Particular Intangible Values
Recreational Values of Protected Areas	p. 59
The Social Value of the Nyangkpe Sacred Forests of South West Province of Cameroon	p. 77
The Cultural Values of Protected Areas	p. 91
Life and the Nature of Life--in Parks	p. 103
Aesthetic Values and Protected Areas: A Story of Symbol Preservation	p. 115
National Parks as Scientific Benchmark Standards for the Bisophere; Or, How Are You Going to Tell How It Used to Be, When There's Nothing Left to See?	p. 129
Therapeutic Values of Parks and Protected Areas	p. 141
Intangible Values in Relation to the Management of Particular Kinds of Protected Areas
Ishmael's Inclinations: Nonuse Values of Marine Protected Areas	p. 157
National Parks versus Protected Landscapes? Legitimacy, Values, and the Management of the Colombian Tropical Wildlands	p. 169
Biosphere Reserves: Tangible and Intangible Values	p. 185
World Heritage Sites: Toward Linking the Tangible and the Intangible	p. 197
Community-Conserved Biodiverse Areas: Lessons from South Asia	p. 211
Strictly Protected Areas: The Russian System of Zapovedniks	p. 227
Protected Landscapes in the Andean Context: Worshipping the Sacred in Nature and Culture	p. 239
Conflict and Controversy in the Arena of Values
Parks as Battlegrounds: Managing Conflicting Values	p. 253
Wilderness as Contested Ground	p. 269
Battling Religions in Parks and Forest Reserves: Facing Religion in Conflicts over Protected Places	p. 281
Wirikuta: The Wixarika/Huichol Sacred Natural Site in the Chihuahuan Desert, San Luis Potosi, Mexico	p. 295
Synthesis and Future Directions
Intangible Values and Protected Areas: Toward a More Holistic Approach to Management	p. 311
Index	p. 327
About the Contributors	p. 339
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