Desert Hawk Books

 

Wildlife Viewing

A Management Handbook

edited by Michael J. Manfredo

 

 

6" X 9" inches
336 pages
Illustrations
Bibliography
Index
Paperback

 

Wildlife viewing is an increasingly popular form of outdoor recreation, yet despite growing public interest, little attention has been directed toward developing professional planning and management tools for this activity.

Wildlife Viewing provides natural resource and recreation professionals with a useful model to help them manage wildlife and wildlife habitat in order to provide sustainable viewing opportunities. Emphasizing an approach called Experienced-based Management (EBM), the book synthesizes a wide variety of findings and concepts from the literature on recreation management. The authors describe the EBM approach, show how it can give direction to management planning, and discuss how biological management tools might be integrated with an EBM approach to managing wildlife-viewing recreation.

Wildlife and recreation professionals at all levels will find this book extremely valuable, as will graduate and undergraduate students in all natural resource fields.

"In many ways this book is ahead of its time. . . . It contains much original work and original thought and integrates appropriate work from many disciplines."-Bob Hernbrode, Chief of Education, Colorado Division of Wildlife

"A significant contribution to the field of human dimensions in wildlife research, Manfredo's book will have great appeal to upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in resource management and human dimensions . . . [and] for practitioners in the field of wildlife and natural resource management." -Prof. Cem M. Basman, Editor, Journal of Interpretation Research

About the Author Michael Manfredo is a Professor and head of the Department of Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism at Colorado State University. He is editor of the book, Influencing Human Behavior: Theory and Applications in Recreation, Tourism, and Natural Resources Management.