Name the Framework
VUM
What is Visitor Use Management?
Two important components of carrying capacity: descriptive and _____
What is "prescriptive"?
The basis for the LAC framework is determining how much of this can be allowed within outdoor recreation
What is impact/change?
Ever since the establishment of this first national park in 1872, protection of our natural resources has been of the utmost importance
What is Yellowstone National Park?
What is number/magic number?
VERP
What is Visitor Experience and Resource Protection?
This twofold mission of many U.S. Parks today: to _____ the parks, but also make them available for _____
What are "conserve" and "recreation"?
The descriptive component of carrying capacity focuses on this type of data
What is factual/objective?
The concept of carrying capacity is based on this classic paper written by Garrett Hardin in 1968
What is The Tragedy of the Commons?
This form of technology has recently been used to play with carrying capacity numbers and visualize their impacts before they even happen
What is computer modeling/simulations?
VIM
What is Visitor Impact Management?
Due to its sometimes contentious character, it's no surprise that carrying capacity has drawn the attention of the U.S. _____ system
What is "court"?
The three dimensions of recreation carrying capacity
What are social, resource, and managerial?
Before its adoption to the outdoor recreation field, carrying capacity was most commonly used in this area of study
What is Wildlife and Range Management?
One of the first of its kind, the NPS implemented this in 2015 to counteract carrying capacity issues at Muir Woods National Monument
What is the Parking and Shuttle Reservation System?
VAMP
What is Visitor Activity Management Process?
The three-step process for many carrying capacity frameworks: formulate _____, monitor _____ variables, and apply management actions if _____ are violated
What are "objectives", "indicator", and "standards"?
When displayed graphically, the relationship between visitor use and impacts to the environment looks like this
What is positively linear?
The earliest suggestion of applying carrying capacity to outdoor recreation was recorded in this decade
What are the 1930s?
While "management objectives" and "indicators and standards" have been previously used in research, newer works use these terms in their place
What are "desired conditions" and "thresholds of quality"?
C-CAP
What is Carrying Capacity Assessment Process?
What are "public values"?
This fourth term is not often of concern when considering the dimensions of recreation carrying capacity
What is physicality/physical space?
This author created a conceptual monograph in the 1960s to apply carrying capacity to outdoor recreation
Who is J. A. Wagar?
This phrase has been suggested to replace the term carrying capacity, as it is more inclusive of managerial implications
What is "design capacity"?