Proceedings - Limits of Acceptable Change and related planning processes: Progress and future directions

Abstract

Experience with Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC) and related planning processes has accumulated since the mid-1980's. These processes were developoed as a means of dealing with recreation carrying capacity issues in wilderness and National Parks. These processes clearly also have application outside of protected areas and to issues other than recreation management. This proceedings represents and attempt to learn from that experience and suggest means of increasing the future utility of these processes.

Titles contained within Proceedings - Limits of Acceptable Change and related planning processes: Progress and future directions

• Limits of acceptable change and related planning processes: a workshop
• Historical development of limits of acceptable change: conceptual clarifications and possible extensions
• Institutional barriers and opportunities in application of the limits of acceptable change
• Role of public involvement in the limits of acceptable change wilderness planning system
• Recreation management in the Bob Marshall, Great Bear, and Scapegoat Wilderness: 1987 to 1997
• Limits of acceptable change planning in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness: 1985 to 1997 (FIDL)
• Visitor experience and resource protection framework in the National Park System: rationale, current status, and future direction
• Application of LAC-type processes and concepts to nonrecreation management issues in protected areas
• Beyond wilderness: Broadening the applicability of limits of acceptable change
• A comparative analysis of protected area planning and management frameworks
• The limits of acceptable change process: modifications and clarifications
• Limits of acceptable change and natural resources planning: when is LAC useful, when is it not?
• Experiencing limits of acceptable change: some thoughts after a decade of implementation
• Annotated bibliography of publications for LAC applications

Citation

McCool, Stephen F.; Cole, David N., comps. 1997. Proceedings - Limits of acceptable change and related planning processes: Progress and future directions. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-371. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 84 p.