J M Bowker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5857487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J M Bowker |
| GIVEN NAMES | J M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowker |
| SIGNATURE | BOWKER J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Research Station |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Differential values associated with outdoor recreational access among the wildlife management area permit holders
Mapping potential motorised sightseeing recreation supply across broad privately-owned landscapes of the Southern United States
The recreational opportunities available across landscapes of the Southern United States can be broad and diverse, and collectively are considered a subset of cultural ecosystem services. In describing the settings of recreational opportunities, a number of methods have been proposed that are based in part on geographic information and that can be facilitated by geographical analyses. Presented here are two expedient and cost-effective methods fo…
Big game hunter preferences for hunting club attributes: A choice experiment
Effects of travel cost and participation in recreational activities on national forest visits
Urban tree cover change in Detroit and Atlanta, USA, 1951–2010
Physical Activity Levels and Preferences of Ethnically Diverse Visitors to Georgia State Parks
Parks provide many outdoor recreation opportunities that encourage physical activity and healthy lifestyles, and research has recently begun to explore the demographic, social, and environmental factors associated with park-based activity levels, particularly outside of urban areas. This study used a mixed methods approach to investigate physical activity levels and correlates among demographically diverse state park visitors in Georgia. Data wer…
Supply of Private Acreage for Recreational Deer Hunting in Georgia
Understanding factors that influence the supply of private acreage for lease hunting has become increasingly important to sustaining hunting. Improving on existing studies that mostly utilized landowners' responses from contingent surveys, we adopted a different approach to this question by analyzing 2009 market data from Georgia counties. Results from multivariate regression indicate that supply of private lease hunting acres was influenced by: …
Wildland fire risk and social vulnerability in the Southeastern United States: An exploratory spatial data analysis approach
Urban forests' potential to supply marketable carbon emission offsets: A survey of municipal governments in the United States
Evaluating natural resource amenities in a human life expectancy production function
Demand for Resident Hunting in the Southeastern United States
We modeled hunting demand among resident hunters in the Southeastern United States. Our model revealed that future hunting demand will likely decline in this region. Population growth in the region will increase demand, but structural change in the region's demography (e.g., “browning” and “aging”), along with declining forestland access will decrease hunting demand. The results suggested that programs encouraging younger and non-white population…
Measuring rural homeowners' willingness to pay for land conservation easements
Ethnic Variation in Environmental Belief and Behavior: An Examination of the New Ecological Paradigm in a Social Psychological Context
We use national-level data to test a modified version of Stern, Dietz, & Guagnano’s causal model of environmental belief and behavior. We focus mainly on ethnic variation in environmental belief, as measured by the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP), and ethnic variation for four environmental behaviors: environmental reading, household recycling, environmental group joining, and participation in nature-based outdoor recreation. Blacks and foreign-bor…
Wilderness Values in America: Does Immigrant Status or Ethnicity Matter
Little is known about the values immigrant groups or U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities attribute to wilderness. However, the views of these groups are important to wilderness preservation because of increasing diversity along ethnic, cultural, and racial lines in the United States. We examine the proposition that wilderness is a social construction (valued primarily by U.S.-born Whites) by comparing wilderness values for immigrants and U.S.-…
African-American Wildland Memories
Collective memory can be used conceptually to examine African-American perceptions of wildlands and black interaction with such places. The middleAmerican view of wildlands frames these terrains as refuges-pure and simple, sanciified places distinct from the profanity of human modification. However, wild, primilivc areas do not exist in the minds of all Americans as uncomplicated or uncontaminated places. Three labor-related institutions-forest l…
Estimating the Economic Value of Lethal VersusNonlethal Deer Control in Suburban Communities
Negative people=wildlife interaction has raised public interest in wildlife population control. We present a contingent valuation study of alternative deer control measures considered for Hilton Head Island, SC. Lethal control using sharpshooters and nonlethal immuno-contraception techniques are evaluated. A mail-back survey was used to collect resident willingness-to-pay (WTP) information for reduced deer densities and consequent property damage…
Accounting for Ethnicity in Recreation Demand: A Flexible Count Data Approach
We examine ethnicity and individual trip taking behavior associated with natural resource based recreation in the Florida Keys. We estimate trip demand using the travel cost method. We then extend this model with a varying parameter adaptation to test the congruency of demand and economic value across white and Hispanic user subgroups. Our findings indicate significant differences in price response leading to divergent per-trip consumer surplus a…
Wildland Recreation in the Rural South: An Examination of Marginality and Ethnicity Theory
The ethnicity and marginality explanations of minority recreation participation provide the conceptual basis for our inquiry. These theories are examined for a sample of rural African Americans and whites. Using logistic regression, we test for black and white differences in: 1) visitation to wildland areas in general; 2) visitation to National Forest wildland areas; and 3) household visitation to the Apalachicola National Forest. Next, we test t…
Wildland Recreation in the Rural South: An Examination of Marginality and Ethnicity Theory
The ethnicity and marginality explanations of minority recreation participation provide the conceptual basis for our inquiry. These theories are examined for a sample of rural African Americans and whites. Using logistic regression, we test for black and white differences in: 1) visitation to wildland areas in general; 2) visitation to National Forest wildland areas; and 3) household visitation to the Apalachicola National Forest. Next, we test t…
Wildland fire risk and social vulnerability in the Southeastern United States: An exploratory spatial data analysis approach
Wilderness Values in America: Does Immigrant Status or Ethnicity Matter
Little is known about the values immigrant groups or U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities attribute to wilderness. However, the views of these groups are important to wilderness preservation because of increasing diversity along ethnic, cultural, and racial lines in the United States. We examine the proposition that wilderness is a social construction (valued primarily by U.S.-born Whites) by comparing wilderness values for immigrants and U.S.-…
Accounting for Ethnicity in Recreation Demand: A Flexible Count Data Approach
We examine ethnicity and individual trip taking behavior associated with natural resource based recreation in the Florida Keys. We estimate trip demand using the travel cost method. We then extend this model with a varying parameter adaptation to test the congruency of demand and economic value across white and Hispanic user subgroups. Our findings indicate significant differences in price response leading to divergent per-trip consumer surplus a…
Measuring rural homeowners' willingness to pay for land conservation easements
African-American Wildland Memories
Collective memory can be used conceptually to examine African-American perceptions of wildlands and black interaction with such places. The middleAmerican view of wildlands frames these terrains as refuges-pure and simple, sanciified places distinct from the profanity of human modification. However, wild, primilivc areas do not exist in the minds of all Americans as uncomplicated or uncontaminated places. Three labor-related institutions-forest l…
Effects of travel cost and participation in recreational activities on national forest visits
Physical Activity Levels and Preferences of Ethnically Diverse Visitors to Georgia State Parks
Parks provide many outdoor recreation opportunities that encourage physical activity and healthy lifestyles, and research has recently begun to explore the demographic, social, and environmental factors associated with park-based activity levels, particularly outside of urban areas. This study used a mixed methods approach to investigate physical activity levels and correlates among demographically diverse state park visitors in Georgia. Data wer…
Evaluating natural resource amenities in a human life expectancy production function
Mapping potential motorised sightseeing recreation supply across broad privately-owned landscapes of the Southern United States
The recreational opportunities available across landscapes of the Southern United States can be broad and diverse, and collectively are considered a subset of cultural ecosystem services. In describing the settings of recreational opportunities, a number of methods have been proposed that are based in part on geographic information and that can be facilitated by geographical analyses. Presented here are two expedient and cost-effective methods fo…
Big game hunter preferences for hunting club attributes: A choice experiment
Urban tree cover change in Detroit and Atlanta, USA, 1951–2010
Estimating the Economic Value of Lethal VersusNonlethal Deer Control in Suburban Communities
Negative people=wildlife interaction has raised public interest in wildlife population control. We present a contingent valuation study of alternative deer control measures considered for Hilton Head Island, SC. Lethal control using sharpshooters and nonlethal immuno-contraception techniques are evaluated. A mail-back survey was used to collect resident willingness-to-pay (WTP) information for reduced deer densities and consequent property damage…
Accounting for Ethnicity in Recreation Demand: A Flexible Count Data Approach
We examine ethnicity and individual trip taking behavior associated with natural resource based recreation in the Florida Keys. We estimate trip demand using the travel cost method. We then extend this model with a varying parameter adaptation to test the congruency of demand and economic value across white and Hispanic user subgroups. Our findings indicate significant differences in price response leading to divergent per-trip consumer surplus a…
Wildland Recreation in the Rural South: An Examination of Marginality and Ethnicity Theory
The ethnicity and marginality explanations of minority recreation participation provide the conceptual basis for our inquiry. These theories are examined for a sample of rural African Americans and whites. Using logistic regression, we test for black and white differences in: 1) visitation to wildland areas in general; 2) visitation to National Forest wildland areas; and 3) household visitation to the Apalachicola National Forest. Next, we test t…
Estimating the Economic Value of Lethal VersusNonlethal Deer Control in Suburban Communities
Negative people=wildlife interaction has raised public interest in wildlife population control. We present a contingent valuation study of alternative deer control measures considered for Hilton Head Island, SC. Lethal control using sharpshooters and nonlethal immuno-contraception techniques are evaluated. A mail-back survey was used to collect resident willingness-to-pay (WTP) information for reduced deer densities and consequent property damage…
Ethnic Variation in Environmental Belief and Behavior: An Examination of the New Ecological Paradigm in a Social Psychological Context
We use national-level data to test a modified version of Stern, Dietz, & Guagnano’s causal model of environmental belief and behavior. We focus mainly on ethnic variation in environmental belief, as measured by the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP), and ethnic variation for four environmental behaviors: environmental reading, household recycling, environmental group joining, and participation in nature-based outdoor recreation. Blacks and foreign-bor…
Wilderness Values in America: Does Immigrant Status or Ethnicity Matter
Little is known about the values immigrant groups or U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities attribute to wilderness. However, the views of these groups are important to wilderness preservation because of increasing diversity along ethnic, cultural, and racial lines in the United States. We examine the proposition that wilderness is a social construction (valued primarily by U.S.-born Whites) by comparing wilderness values for immigrants and U.S.-…
African-American Wildland Memories
Collective memory can be used conceptually to examine African-American perceptions of wildlands and black interaction with such places. The middleAmerican view of wildlands frames these terrains as refuges-pure and simple, sanciified places distinct from the profanity of human modification. However, wild, primilivc areas do not exist in the minds of all Americans as uncomplicated or uncontaminated places. Three labor-related institutions-forest l…
Measuring rural homeowners' willingness to pay for land conservation easements
Demand for Resident Hunting in the Southeastern United States
We modeled hunting demand among resident hunters in the Southeastern United States. Our model revealed that future hunting demand will likely decline in this region. Population growth in the region will increase demand, but structural change in the region's demography (e.g., “browning” and “aging”), along with declining forestland access will decrease hunting demand. The results suggested that programs encouraging younger and non-white population…
Evaluating natural resource amenities in a human life expectancy production function
Wildland fire risk and social vulnerability in the Southeastern United States: An exploratory spatial data analysis approach
Urban forests' potential to supply marketable carbon emission offsets: A survey of municipal governments in the United States
Supply of Private Acreage for Recreational Deer Hunting in Georgia
Understanding factors that influence the supply of private acreage for lease hunting has become increasingly important to sustaining hunting. Improving on existing studies that mostly utilized landowners' responses from contingent surveys, we adopted a different approach to this question by analyzing 2009 market data from Georgia counties. Results from multivariate regression indicate that supply of private lease hunting acres was influenced by: …
Effects of travel cost and participation in recreational activities on national forest visits
Urban tree cover change in Detroit and Atlanta, USA, 1951–2010
Physical Activity Levels and Preferences of Ethnically Diverse Visitors to Georgia State Parks
Parks provide many outdoor recreation opportunities that encourage physical activity and healthy lifestyles, and research has recently begun to explore the demographic, social, and environmental factors associated with park-based activity levels, particularly outside of urban areas. This study used a mixed methods approach to investigate physical activity levels and correlates among demographically diverse state park visitors in Georgia. Data wer…
Big game hunter preferences for hunting club attributes: A choice experiment
Mapping potential motorised sightseeing recreation supply across broad privately-owned landscapes of the Southern United States
The recreational opportunities available across landscapes of the Southern United States can be broad and diverse, and collectively are considered a subset of cultural ecosystem services. In describing the settings of recreational opportunities, a number of methods have been proposed that are based in part on geographic information and that can be facilitated by geographical analyses. Presented here are two expedient and cost-effective methods fo…
Differential values associated with outdoor recreational access among the wildlife management area permit holders
Geography (12 works) · Business (10 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Recreation (9 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Natural resource economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (7 works)