Robert G. HealyDuke University | DU · Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy
Robert G. Healy
Ph.D. UCLA 1972
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Introduction
Robert Healy is currently interested in the management of tourism, particularly at sensitive or over-visited places and in the history of policy analysis.
Additional affiliations
June 1975 - September 1986
The Conservation Foundation
Position
- Senior Researcher
January 1973 - September 1975
Position
- Economist
Description
- Researched and wrote "Land Use and the States," a book about the movement toward state and regional land use regulation, supplementing traditional local land use controls.
August 1985 - present
Education
January 1967 - June 1972
September 1962 - June 1965
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Field of study
- Economics and English
Publications
Publications (51)
Explains why people collect a variety of material objects (as well as experiences), offering economic (investment), psychological and social explanations.
Offers an overview of what impels individuals to amass collections of all types, and how that behavior is expressed in their behavior. Contains information about the economics of collecting and collectibles.
An application of work on "tourist merchandise" published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism to a specific sector: artisanal food products. I consider food products, along with the amazing variety of local crafts and decorative products, to be important potential sources of income for poor, rural, people, particularly those living in and around prot...
Some thoughts on the history of policy analysis. While many practitioners (and textbooks) believe that formal policy analysis is a product of the post WWII expansion of government functions, there are many fascinating examples of "modern" techniques applied throughout history.
Memo prepared for one of my classes, and updated periodically, that summarizes some important lesson I've learned about rural development over nearly 50 years of education, teaching and research.
An enlarged and revised book which looks at some programs of state land use control. Focusing on the problems that have caused the public to demand such controls, on the variety of legislative responses, and on the problems of implementation that arise, this study presents a rationale for the role of the state government in the land use field. Orig...
Comprehensive and up-to-date comparison of environmental issues and environmental polices in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, with emphasis on transboundary issues.
An analysis of the challenges involved in incorporating science and other kinds of knowledge into making environmental policy.
During the George W. Bush administration, politics and ideology routinely trumped scientific knowledge in making environmental policy. Data were falsified, reports were edited selectively, and scientists were censored. The...
One reason why tourism destination resources have proven difficult to manage sustainably is that many of their most important attributes are common pool resources and thus subject to the “tragedy of the commons.” Common pool resources are subject to both overuse and underinvestment. This study considers how the Canadian side of Niagara Falls exhibi...
En algunos artículos y libros recientes se asegura que el envejecimiento de la población –muy marcado en los países desarrollados– a la larga afectará también a varios países en vías de desarrollo, entre ellos a México (Tuirán, 2000; Ham-Chande, 2003; Welti, 2004). En el presente texto se sostiene que las diferencias entre los países de América del...
Much of today’s heritage tourism product depends on the staging or re-creation of ethnic or cultural traditions. This study analyzes the role of perceived authenticity as a measure of product quality and as a determinant of tourist satisfaction. The event studied was the Flora Macdonald Scottish Highland Games held in North Carolina (United States)...
The trends of the past two decades suggest that continental integration through seasonal migration will increase in the coming years. Baby Boomers are just beginning to approach their retirement years, and will increasingly relocate investment income from northern to southern locations and readjust residential patterns to include at least part of t...
Efforts by both natural and social scientists have brought significant new bodies of information to bear on natural resources policy making. Among these have been new insights in conservation biology and landscape ecology, new methods for valuing intangible resource benefits, and new frameworks for resource accounting. The use of these new sources...
Management of scenic and historic landscapes and other background tourism elements is problematic because they very frequently are what property rights theorists call “common pool” resources. They are characterized by susceptibility to overuse and resource damage and by lack of incentive for productivity-enhancing investment. Property rights theory...
Long term protection of national parks and nature reserves is very difficult unless economic benefits can be secured for local people. Ecotourism offers a possible income source, provided that there is a means of local revenue capture from the visitors. This article examines the sale of handicrafts and other ‘tourist merchandise’ as a possible mean...
The assertion that previously cultivated areas now under tropical forests are particularly suited to conversion for future food production is inconsistent with socially optimal land allocation. With regard to agricultural benefit streams, land cultivated in pre-modern times is not necessarily suitable for cultivation under modern conditions of tran...
This volume has two fundamental purposes: first, to analyze resources policy in developing nations from a public policy perspective; and second, based upon this perspective, to infer lessons from past cases and offer prescriptions for improvement. The evidence used to achieve these purposes is a series of case studies on agricultural modernization,...
Conversion of commodity-producing rural lands to urban and other built-up uses received considerable attention in the professional lit- erature and in the popular press in the early 1 %0's (U. S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Council on Environmental Quality 198 1 ; Fi\chel 1982; Raup 1980; Brown. et al. 1982). Although some have concluded tha...
Scores of "state of the environment" (SOE) reports have been prepared for countries and regions throughout the world, particularly in the last decade. This is striking evidence of a growing international interest in environmental quality. Regional, national, and, in some cases, even global in scope, SOE reports cover developed and developing countr...
Coastal zone management arose as a response to pervasive conflict between the increasingly well-recognized environmental values of the coastal zone and various development activities. In enacting the 1972 federal Coastal Zone Management Act, Congress explicitly called for a balancing of developmental and environmental concerns, leaving the states a...
Agricultural exports provide the American economy with a major cushion, now averaging $40 billion a year and offsetting 62% of imported oil expenditures. Land, water, and energy constraints as well as serious soil erosion may prevent an expansion or even a maintenance of this record. Basic inputs, technological innovations, and a favorable climate...
Demographers find that the fastest population growth is in nonmetropolitan countries, where manufacturing, highway, housing, and shopping pressures are changing the rural economy and stability. At the same time, the need for food, wood, water, and recreation is increasing. Conservations and policymakers need to understand the changing rural land ma...
The states have retained land-use policies that affect the rate and character of development even though a Federal land-use policy has still to be adopted. Most states adapted land-use policies to meet their unique problems rather than adopt a proposed Model Land Development Code. Land-use concerns address the conflicts of goals and rights inherent...
One in every three acres cultivated in the US is planted exclusively for export. We are paying a high environmental price for ths additional acreage (soil erosion, water pollution, etc.). Agriculture is a strategic as well as an economic resource. National security depends on security of raw material supply, particularly in food and fuel. The US is...
The recent revival of interest in rural planning has highlighted the need to understand the operation of rural land markets and the identity and motivations of rural landlowners. Three important land market trends are identified - increased demand for rural properties by 'non-traditional' owners, changes in the size-distribution of landholdings, an...
The states have retained land-use policies that affect the rate and character of development even though a Federal land-use policy has still to be adopted. Most states adapted land-use policies to meet their unique problems rather than adopt a proposed Model Land Development Code. Land-use concerns address the conflicts of goals and rights inherent...
The usefulness of central place theory, as a general explanation of the spatial distribution of activities in a system of cities and of the spatial ordering of urban places within that system, clearly relies on economic phenomena. Christaller's original formulation of the theory was similarly economic in basis, yet economic phenomena have been igno...
The usefulness of central place theory, as a general explanation of the spatial distribution of activities in a system of cities and of the spatial ordering of urban places within that system, clearly relies on economic phenomena. Christaller's original formulation of the theory was similarly economic in basis, yet economic phenomena have been igno...
Discusses how the permit system, as originally conceived and later administered, influenced California's final objective of a feasible coastal plan. On balance, California's strategy was a highly successful one.-from Selected Water Resources Abstracts
The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) groups activities without regard to locational behavior. Any SIC group may—and often does—contain two or more activities that have different locational patterns.Starting with data describing the number of people employed in each of 480 activities in each of 311 metropolitan areas of the United States in...
In 1972 California's voters gave control over nearly all construction along the state's 1,000‐mile coastline to powerful state and regional boards. These boards will administer a permit system for three years, then submit a plan to the Legislature for the future preservation and development of the coast. The permit zone includes a wide variety of n...
This study is a theoretical and empirical investigation of the impact of housing improvement on worker productivity, health, and absenteeism. A model is proposed which considers the interaction of housing improvement with other forms of human capital investment. Empirical evidence from a four-year study of the performance of a sample of rehoused fa...
Local government traditionally is involved in land-use regulations, but since 1976, state and regional participation in land-use issues continues to expand, as witnessed by Florida, California, Oregon, and Hawaii taking steps to extend existing state regulatory programs or to enact new ones. At present, though, there is little chance of passing com...
Since the passage of the Weeks Law in 1911 that authorized the Federal government to buy land, 50 national forests totaling almost 24 million acres of Federally owned land have been established in 23 eastern states. The purpose of this report is to call attention to the distinctive qualities of the eastern national forests and the various demands p...
This report examines 5 public policies that could be implemented to encourage energy conservation. It explores pricing, supply restriction and allocation, regulation, incentive and informational programs in relationship to currently suggested energy conservation policies.
Vita. Thesis (Ph. D.)--U.C.L.A. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-145). Microfilm (positive).
Thesis--University of California, Los Angeles. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-145). Photocopy of typescript.
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Question (1)
I am writing a history of the human search for scarce and valuable metals from the Bronze Age to about 1960. The metals are: gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, mercury. The book is based on a set of case studies--each is an important mining site, was mined for anywhere from 100 to 4000 years, and currently has a good interpretive museum and underground tour. The sites are: Great Orme Mine (Wales), Laurion (Greece), Rio Tinto (Spain), Reed Gold Mine (North Carolina), Erzgebirge/Freiburg (Germany), Almaden (Spain), Potosi (Bolivia), Copper Region (Upper Peninsula Michigan, US) and Gold District (Johannesburg, South Africa). A narrative history of world mining will tie the cases together. I would be interested in information about any of the study sites, especially personal familiarity, interest in chapter or manuscript review, or in hearing from anyone who would find this work useful for their own research.
