Measuring recreational visitation at U.S. National Parks with crowd-sourced photographs

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 183, Issue , 2016, Pages 703-711

  Sessions, Carrie ^a,b   Wood, Spencer A ^a,b   Rabotyagov, Sergey ^a   Fisher, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

National parks; Recreation; Social media; Travel cost; Valuation; Visitation rates

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EMPIRICAL DATA; LAND MANAGERS; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; NATIONAL PARKS; POLICY DECISIONS; RECREATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; TRAVEL COSTS; VALUATION; VISITATION RATE;

PARKS;

COST ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; NATIONAL PARK; OVERCROWDING; PHOTOGRAPH; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; RECREATIONAL POLICY; SOCIAL MEDIA; VALUATION;

ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; HABIT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANAGER; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NATIONAL PARK; PHOTOGRAPHY; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; VALIDITY; WEATHER; CROWDSOURCING; PROCEDURES; RECREATION; RECREATIONAL PARK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

UNITED STATES;

CROWDSOURCING; HUMANS; PARKS, RECREATIONAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; RECREATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84991769707     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.09.018     Document Type: Article

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