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Papers by David Marcouiller
Economic Development Quarterly
This essay offers an argument in favor of aninterdisciplinary approach to community economic deve... more This essay offers an argument in favor of aninterdisciplinary approach to community economic development, based on a newparadigm aiming at providing a more comprehensive view of community economicdevelopment. Several definitions of community economic development are offeredfrom both historical and contemporary perspectives, including an emphasis onthe various definitions of the spatial community. The authors offer a new paradigm for understanding community economicdevelopment, which is grounded in space, and made up of the followingcategories: (1) resources (land, labor, capital, innovation and technology,amenities, and public goods); (2) markets (internal and external); (3) rulesand institutions; (4) society and culture; and (5) decision-making. According to this paradigm--community decision making implies groupaction--there are specific goals for community economic development to pursue,and there are several tenets underlying its policy and programming initiatives.Recommendations ...
County parks, trails and open space provide important economic benefits to local citizens. County... more County parks, trails and open space provide important economic benefits to local citizens. County residents and local officials understand this, and thus seek to expand on these resources. Before doing this, however, the County wishes to better understand how parks, trails and open space make the County a better place to live, work, and recreate. For this reason they have partnered with UW-Extension and the UW-Madison Department of Urban and Regional Planning to provide them with research and analysis related to the way that parks, trails and open space should be expanded. Meanwhile, the county is concurrently being evaluated as a potential site for the Wisconsin Land Legacy program, which will help with the financing and implementation of the expansion plans.
Travel and tourism represent important economic activities that contribute to the vibrancy of Wis... more Travel and tourism represent important economic activities that contribute to the vibrancy of Wisconsin communities and provide an income source for many of our State's citizens. Understanding the role of tourism in providing income requires a thorough assessment of occupational structure and labor market characteristics. Furthermore, spatial differences of where labor is employed and income is generated is needed to better understand the role of tourism across the varied landscapes of our state; from our urban and suburban communities to the remote, rural towns found throughout the Northern, Central, and Southwestern portions of Wisconsin. In this report, we document results of a study that attempts to provide this more detailed assessment using secondary data from a variety of standardized sources and primary data collected through a series of focus group interview. Results suggest that aggregate statistics on total jobs created and income generated mask important elements that allow a more complete understanding of the jobs and income created by travel and tourism sectors as they respond to the spending of tourists in Wisconsin.
Outdoor recreation planning is taking on an increasing sense of urgency as open and publicly acce... more Outdoor recreation planning is taking on an increasing sense of urgency as open and publicly accessible lands experience increased demand pressures. As rural landscapes become fragmented by private residential and commercial developments, the extent and quality of accessible public recreation lands becomes increasingly scarce. This is exacerbated by fairly dramatic change in patterns of recreational use. Increased recreational demands matched with constraints on recreation supply have led to increased levels of crowding, displacement, and antagonism; specifically, the manner in which recreational interaction takes place lies squarely in the face of those charged with planning for future use. Recreational activities interact with different degrees of compatibility resulting in various levels of recreational use conflict. In this literature review and annotated bibliography, we critique the relevant literature on recreation conflict and forward an approach to recreation planning that ...
While the demand aspects of publicly provided recreation have long held the spotlight of research... more While the demand aspects of publicly provided recreation have long held the spotlight of research, the supply side of public recreation components remains inexact and relatively unexplored. In this report, we focus on supply components of recreational resources in Wisconsin. The supply of recreational resources is a complex combination of natural amenities and recreational sites which are influenced by an array of factors that act to provide opportunities which satisfy recreational needs and desires. Measures of recreational site density are a critical first step in analyzing supply and need to account for both physical/geographic size and population, or social capacity. In an effort to assess recreation supply in Wisconsin, we present county-level data analyzed using alternative indices that speak to referencing amenities and recreational sites within a broader regional context. Results suggest that measures of recreational carrying capacity vary widely depending on the metric used...
Users of public outdoor recreational trails experience many benefits which enhance their health, ... more Users of public outdoor recreational trails experience many benefits which enhance their health, well-being, and quality of life. In addition, trail users spend money for supplies, food and beverages which improves the economy of the area by supporting jobs and business ...
Northern Journal of Applied Forestry
One of the important objectives of forest management planning is to enhance the beneficial econom... more One of the important objectives of forest management planning is to enhance the beneficial economic impacts of resource policy decisions. Input-output is one of the common tools planning analysts use to assess economic impacts. This paper presents procedures whereby the county data files for the Micro-IMPLAN input-output modeling system can be adjusted to create economic models at a finer level of geographic specificity than county-based models. Models specified to the minor civil division level can permit closer evaluation of resource policy impacts on regions defined by resource-base rather than administrative or political boundaries. North. J. Appl. For. 16(3):129-136.
Habitat International, 2015
ABSTRACT While the demand aspects of publicly provided recreation have long held the spotlight of... more ABSTRACT While the demand aspects of publicly provided recreation have long held the spotlight of research, the supply side of public recreation components remains inexact and relatively unexplored. In this report, we focus on supply components of recreational resources in Wisconsin. The supply of recreational resources is a complex combination of natural amenities and recreational sites which are influenced by an array of factors that act to provide opportunities which satisfy recreational needs and desires. Measures of recreational site density are a critical first step in analyzing supply and need to account for both physical/geographic size and population, or social capacity. In an effort to assess recreation supply in Wisconsin, we present county-level data analyzed using alternative indices that speak to referencing amenities and recreational sites within a broader regional context. Results suggest that measures of recreational carrying capacity vary widely depending on the metric used and that capturing a broader geographical realm is critical to understanding the spatial supply patterns of amenities and certain types of recreational sites.
Forests provide a broad economic basis for rural communities throughout the Northeastern United S... more Forests provide a broad economic basis for rural communities throughout the Northeastern United States. Contemporary resource management and rural development planning increasingly emphasize the integration of raw material production with forward-linked processing activities. Furthermore, the tacit acceptance of joint production of both wood and amenity-based recreation often pits the forward linked sectors of wood processing and tourism against one another
Regional economic assessments of forest management alternatives provide complex modeling problems... more Regional economic assessments of forest management alternatives provide complex modeling problems for policy analysts. Two specific empirical complexities involve income distribution and output trade-offs within a market-based neoclassical economic framework. This paper develops a social accounting matrix (SAM) model to investigate distributional impacts and differential outputs of alternative forestland management regimes of the Upper Great Lakes forested region. Extensions to
The supply of outdoor recreational resources involves a complex combination of natural amenities,... more The supply of outdoor recreational resources involves a complex combination of natural amenities, public recreation sites, and private recreational activities that are influenced by an array of factors to provide opportunities for leisure experiences thus satisfying local recreational needs and desires. In this article, we demonstrate an approach to assess supply components of outdoor recreation sites and related natural amenities at the sub-state level in Wisconsin. The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate a technique used to assess recreation supply for comprehensive recreation planning that is regionally comparative, standardized to useful base metrics, easily interpretable, and flexible to alternative regional specifications and recreation typologies. Regional measures of recreational site density are a critical first step in analyzing supply and need to account for both geographic size (physical capacity) and population (or social capacity). We demonstrate an application of the recreation location quotient using alternative indices that reference amenities and recreational sites within a broader regional context. Results suggest that locations proximate to large population centers have fundamentally different supply characteristics and generally exhibit diminished opportunities for outdoor recreation, as a whole. Further, results suggest that measures of recreational site density vary widely depending on the metric used, and that capturing broader geographies is critical to understanding the spatial supply patterns of amenities and certain types of recreational sites. This type of work is logically a central feature of proactive, objective, and comprehensive outdoor recreation planning that has a basis in theoretically sound and empirically justified regional analysis. Recreation management professionals, parks and forest administrators, and the corresponding elected public officials who make decisions about allocation of scarce public resources need to better understand locational attributes of recreation supply. The process of maintaining current recreational resources require a more informed and thorough assessment of spatially explicit locational needs. These needs vary across state and sub-state regions. Perhaps more importantly, it would appear critical to utilize these informed regional supply metrics to set goals and to identify where recreational opportunities are lacking in the strategic targeting of increasingly scarce public funds to develop new outdoor recreation sites.
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2015
Amenities and Rural Development, 2005
The Planner¿s Guide to Natural Resource Conservation:, 2009
The Annals of Regional Science, 2012
Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer-Verlag. Th... more Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer-Verlag. This e-offprint is for personal use only and shall not be self-archived in electronic repositories. If you wish to self-archive your article, please use the accepted manuscript version for posting on your own website. You may further deposit the accepted manuscript version in any repository, provided it is only made publicly available 12 months after official publication or later and provided acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication and a link is inserted to the published article on Springer's website. The link must be accompanied by the following text: "The final publication is available at link.springer.com".
Amenities and Rural Development, 2005
Handbook of Rural Development, 2013
Natural resources have long been a source of both raw material supply and value added manufacturi... more Natural resources have long been a source of both raw material supply and value added manufacturing in many rural regions across North America. Contemporary resource management and rural development planning increasingly emphasize the integration of raw material production with forward-linked processing activities. Empirical studies suggest that wood processors locate proximate to raw material supplies. Assessing the regional firm location decisions of wood processors, however, raises important and complex issues of sectoral heterogeneity. In this paper, we initiate analysis of firm location in three wood processing sub-sectors through descriptive location quotients of primary, secondary, and reconstituted wood products manufacturing sectors. Explanatory variables that support these sectoral specific location quotients include proxies for raw material inputs and output markets. Results suggest that important differences exist in locational dependency attributes between wood products sub-sectors.
Economic Development Quarterly
This essay offers an argument in favor of aninterdisciplinary approach to community economic deve... more This essay offers an argument in favor of aninterdisciplinary approach to community economic development, based on a newparadigm aiming at providing a more comprehensive view of community economicdevelopment. Several definitions of community economic development are offeredfrom both historical and contemporary perspectives, including an emphasis onthe various definitions of the spatial community. The authors offer a new paradigm for understanding community economicdevelopment, which is grounded in space, and made up of the followingcategories: (1) resources (land, labor, capital, innovation and technology,amenities, and public goods); (2) markets (internal and external); (3) rulesand institutions; (4) society and culture; and (5) decision-making. According to this paradigm--community decision making implies groupaction--there are specific goals for community economic development to pursue,and there are several tenets underlying its policy and programming initiatives.Recommendations ...
County parks, trails and open space provide important economic benefits to local citizens. County... more County parks, trails and open space provide important economic benefits to local citizens. County residents and local officials understand this, and thus seek to expand on these resources. Before doing this, however, the County wishes to better understand how parks, trails and open space make the County a better place to live, work, and recreate. For this reason they have partnered with UW-Extension and the UW-Madison Department of Urban and Regional Planning to provide them with research and analysis related to the way that parks, trails and open space should be expanded. Meanwhile, the county is concurrently being evaluated as a potential site for the Wisconsin Land Legacy program, which will help with the financing and implementation of the expansion plans.
Travel and tourism represent important economic activities that contribute to the vibrancy of Wis... more Travel and tourism represent important economic activities that contribute to the vibrancy of Wisconsin communities and provide an income source for many of our State's citizens. Understanding the role of tourism in providing income requires a thorough assessment of occupational structure and labor market characteristics. Furthermore, spatial differences of where labor is employed and income is generated is needed to better understand the role of tourism across the varied landscapes of our state; from our urban and suburban communities to the remote, rural towns found throughout the Northern, Central, and Southwestern portions of Wisconsin. In this report, we document results of a study that attempts to provide this more detailed assessment using secondary data from a variety of standardized sources and primary data collected through a series of focus group interview. Results suggest that aggregate statistics on total jobs created and income generated mask important elements that allow a more complete understanding of the jobs and income created by travel and tourism sectors as they respond to the spending of tourists in Wisconsin.
Outdoor recreation planning is taking on an increasing sense of urgency as open and publicly acce... more Outdoor recreation planning is taking on an increasing sense of urgency as open and publicly accessible lands experience increased demand pressures. As rural landscapes become fragmented by private residential and commercial developments, the extent and quality of accessible public recreation lands becomes increasingly scarce. This is exacerbated by fairly dramatic change in patterns of recreational use. Increased recreational demands matched with constraints on recreation supply have led to increased levels of crowding, displacement, and antagonism; specifically, the manner in which recreational interaction takes place lies squarely in the face of those charged with planning for future use. Recreational activities interact with different degrees of compatibility resulting in various levels of recreational use conflict. In this literature review and annotated bibliography, we critique the relevant literature on recreation conflict and forward an approach to recreation planning that ...
While the demand aspects of publicly provided recreation have long held the spotlight of research... more While the demand aspects of publicly provided recreation have long held the spotlight of research, the supply side of public recreation components remains inexact and relatively unexplored. In this report, we focus on supply components of recreational resources in Wisconsin. The supply of recreational resources is a complex combination of natural amenities and recreational sites which are influenced by an array of factors that act to provide opportunities which satisfy recreational needs and desires. Measures of recreational site density are a critical first step in analyzing supply and need to account for both physical/geographic size and population, or social capacity. In an effort to assess recreation supply in Wisconsin, we present county-level data analyzed using alternative indices that speak to referencing amenities and recreational sites within a broader regional context. Results suggest that measures of recreational carrying capacity vary widely depending on the metric used...
Users of public outdoor recreational trails experience many benefits which enhance their health, ... more Users of public outdoor recreational trails experience many benefits which enhance their health, well-being, and quality of life. In addition, trail users spend money for supplies, food and beverages which improves the economy of the area by supporting jobs and business ...
Northern Journal of Applied Forestry
One of the important objectives of forest management planning is to enhance the beneficial econom... more One of the important objectives of forest management planning is to enhance the beneficial economic impacts of resource policy decisions. Input-output is one of the common tools planning analysts use to assess economic impacts. This paper presents procedures whereby the county data files for the Micro-IMPLAN input-output modeling system can be adjusted to create economic models at a finer level of geographic specificity than county-based models. Models specified to the minor civil division level can permit closer evaluation of resource policy impacts on regions defined by resource-base rather than administrative or political boundaries. North. J. Appl. For. 16(3):129-136.
Habitat International, 2015
ABSTRACT While the demand aspects of publicly provided recreation have long held the spotlight of... more ABSTRACT While the demand aspects of publicly provided recreation have long held the spotlight of research, the supply side of public recreation components remains inexact and relatively unexplored. In this report, we focus on supply components of recreational resources in Wisconsin. The supply of recreational resources is a complex combination of natural amenities and recreational sites which are influenced by an array of factors that act to provide opportunities which satisfy recreational needs and desires. Measures of recreational site density are a critical first step in analyzing supply and need to account for both physical/geographic size and population, or social capacity. In an effort to assess recreation supply in Wisconsin, we present county-level data analyzed using alternative indices that speak to referencing amenities and recreational sites within a broader regional context. Results suggest that measures of recreational carrying capacity vary widely depending on the metric used and that capturing a broader geographical realm is critical to understanding the spatial supply patterns of amenities and certain types of recreational sites.
Forests provide a broad economic basis for rural communities throughout the Northeastern United S... more Forests provide a broad economic basis for rural communities throughout the Northeastern United States. Contemporary resource management and rural development planning increasingly emphasize the integration of raw material production with forward-linked processing activities. Furthermore, the tacit acceptance of joint production of both wood and amenity-based recreation often pits the forward linked sectors of wood processing and tourism against one another
Regional economic assessments of forest management alternatives provide complex modeling problems... more Regional economic assessments of forest management alternatives provide complex modeling problems for policy analysts. Two specific empirical complexities involve income distribution and output trade-offs within a market-based neoclassical economic framework. This paper develops a social accounting matrix (SAM) model to investigate distributional impacts and differential outputs of alternative forestland management regimes of the Upper Great Lakes forested region. Extensions to
The supply of outdoor recreational resources involves a complex combination of natural amenities,... more The supply of outdoor recreational resources involves a complex combination of natural amenities, public recreation sites, and private recreational activities that are influenced by an array of factors to provide opportunities for leisure experiences thus satisfying local recreational needs and desires. In this article, we demonstrate an approach to assess supply components of outdoor recreation sites and related natural amenities at the sub-state level in Wisconsin. The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate a technique used to assess recreation supply for comprehensive recreation planning that is regionally comparative, standardized to useful base metrics, easily interpretable, and flexible to alternative regional specifications and recreation typologies. Regional measures of recreational site density are a critical first step in analyzing supply and need to account for both geographic size (physical capacity) and population (or social capacity). We demonstrate an application of the recreation location quotient using alternative indices that reference amenities and recreational sites within a broader regional context. Results suggest that locations proximate to large population centers have fundamentally different supply characteristics and generally exhibit diminished opportunities for outdoor recreation, as a whole. Further, results suggest that measures of recreational site density vary widely depending on the metric used, and that capturing broader geographies is critical to understanding the spatial supply patterns of amenities and certain types of recreational sites. This type of work is logically a central feature of proactive, objective, and comprehensive outdoor recreation planning that has a basis in theoretically sound and empirically justified regional analysis. Recreation management professionals, parks and forest administrators, and the corresponding elected public officials who make decisions about allocation of scarce public resources need to better understand locational attributes of recreation supply. The process of maintaining current recreational resources require a more informed and thorough assessment of spatially explicit locational needs. These needs vary across state and sub-state regions. Perhaps more importantly, it would appear critical to utilize these informed regional supply metrics to set goals and to identify where recreational opportunities are lacking in the strategic targeting of increasingly scarce public funds to develop new outdoor recreation sites.
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2015
Amenities and Rural Development, 2005
The Planner¿s Guide to Natural Resource Conservation:, 2009
The Annals of Regional Science, 2012
Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer-Verlag. Th... more Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer-Verlag. This e-offprint is for personal use only and shall not be self-archived in electronic repositories. If you wish to self-archive your article, please use the accepted manuscript version for posting on your own website. You may further deposit the accepted manuscript version in any repository, provided it is only made publicly available 12 months after official publication or later and provided acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication and a link is inserted to the published article on Springer's website. The link must be accompanied by the following text: "The final publication is available at link.springer.com".
Amenities and Rural Development, 2005
Handbook of Rural Development, 2013
Natural resources have long been a source of both raw material supply and value added manufacturi... more Natural resources have long been a source of both raw material supply and value added manufacturing in many rural regions across North America. Contemporary resource management and rural development planning increasingly emphasize the integration of raw material production with forward-linked processing activities. Empirical studies suggest that wood processors locate proximate to raw material supplies. Assessing the regional firm location decisions of wood processors, however, raises important and complex issues of sectoral heterogeneity. In this paper, we initiate analysis of firm location in three wood processing sub-sectors through descriptive location quotients of primary, secondary, and reconstituted wood products manufacturing sectors. Explanatory variables that support these sectoral specific location quotients include proxies for raw material inputs and output markets. Results suggest that important differences exist in locational dependency attributes between wood products sub-sectors.