External Development: Turning Problems into Opportunities

9 pages

The National Park System and Development on Private Lands: Opportunities and Tools to Protect Park Resources

34 pages. Contains footnotes

Pollution in Parks: A Publication of the National Park Service

28 pages (includes illustrations). Contains references

Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions [The Congressional Record, Senate vol. 132, February 25, 1986, S1561-S1564]

Presenter: Robert F. Hurley, Administrative Assistant to Senator John H. Chafee. 5 pages

Siting Industrial Facilities in the Western United States

24 pages. Contains references

Panel: “Protecting Our National Parks: What Should Be Done,” and William J. Lockhart, Outline: Problems and Issues that Must Be Addressed; and Some Preliminary Proposals for Solutions

26 pages

Panel: Perspectives on External Threats to the National Parks [Report of the Subgroup of the Park Protection Working Group]

11 pages. Contains 1 attachment

Protection of Waters Within and Without Park Boundaries to Support National Parks and Other Units of the National Park System

8 pages

Siting Industrial Facilities in the Western United States

24 pages. Contains references

Distributional Welfare Impacts of Public Spending: The Case of Urban versus National Parks

This study examines the optimal allocation of funds between national and urban parks. Since travel costs to national parks are significantly higher than to urban parks, poor households tend to visit the latter more frequently, whereas rich households favor the former. Therefore, allocating public funds to improving the quality of national parks at the expense of urban parks disproportionately benefits high income households. By developing a theoretical model and implementing it using Israeli data, findings indicate all households, except for the richest decile, prefer that the park authority divert a larger proportion of its budget from national to urban parks.budget allocation, income distribution, national parks, urban parks, Public Economics,