Simulation of Water Recreation Users' Decisions

Abstract

function provides about the number of recreationists who are willing to pay various amounts for a given recreation experience. Discussion and application of this methodology may be found in Clawson and Knetsch, Seckler, Stoevner and Brown, Trice and Wood, and Beardsley.' For evaluating proposed facilities, estimating a demand function by observing behavior is not possible. One may turn to less elegant methods of cost-benefit analysis in which recreation usage is projected and the value of a unit of recreation is treated separately without the benefit of information provided by a demand function. For example, a meritweighted user-day approach is suggested by Mack and Meyers and in an analysis by Davidson, Adams, and Seneca the value of a unit of recreation is