What is LAC and when is it useful?

Abstract

With the increasing demand of people recreating in protected areas, managers around the world are asking questions about how to manage recreation use, whether to limit use, and if so, when to limit use. How do managers decide when recreation use is causing unacceptable resource damage and how to restrict use to limit damage? And how do they know whether restrictions that have been implemented are effective at meeting management goals? In the mid-1980s the Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC) process was formally defined to address these types of questions. Since then, wilderness managers in the United States have implemented this process in a variety of situations.

Citation

Wright, Vita. 1998. What is LAC and when is it useful? International Journal of Wilderness. 4(2):12.