The integrated business information system: using automation to monitor cost-effectiveness of park operations

Dick Stanley; Bruce Jackson

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The integrated business information system: using automation to monitor cost-effectiveness of park operations

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Authors:

Dick Stanley, Bruce Jackson

Year:

1995

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Vander Stoep, Gail A., ed. Proceedings of the 1994 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 1994 April 10-12; Saratoga Springs, NY.: Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-198. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 146-151

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Abstract

The cost-effectiveness of park operations is often neglected because information is laborious to compile. The information, however, is critical if we are to derive maximum benefit from scarce resources. This paper describes an automated system for calculating cost-effectiveness ratios with minimum effort using data from existing data bases.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the 1994 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Citation

Stanley, Dick; Jackson, Bruce. 1995. The integrated business information system: using automation to monitor cost-effectiveness of park operations. In: Vander Stoep, Gail A., ed. Proceedings of the 1994 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 1994 April 10-12; Saratoga Springs, NY.: Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-198. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 146-151