Download or read book Better Management of National Park Concessions Can Improve Services Provided to the Public written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Better Management of National Park Concessions Can Improve Services Provided to the Public written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better Management of National Park Concessions Can Improve Services Provided to the Public
Download or read book Better Management of National Park Concessions Can Improve Services Provided to the Public written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Better Management of National Park Concessions Can Improve Services Provided to the Public written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the management of concession operations by the National Park Service (NPS). GAO found that concessioner performance evaluation would be more effective if visitors' opinions and comments were used in appraising concessioner performance. Existing concessioners already have a competitive advantage over others who want to operate in the parks, they do not need additional legal advantages. By using single concessioners to provide the services in a park, NPS has limited its options for requiring improvement without seriously disrupting service to the public. As a result, NPS does not take necessary corrective actions. GAO also found that concession rates are not always studied, justified, or documented before approval, and the quality of facilities is given little or no consideration in approving the rates.
Download or read book Natural Resources and Environment written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the management of concession operations by the National Park Service (NPS). GAO found that concessioner performance evaluation would be more effective if visitors' opinions and comments were used in appraising concessioner performance. Existing concessioners already have a competitive advantage over others who want to operate in the parks, they do not need additional legal advantages. By using single concessioners to provide the services in a park, NPS has limited its options for requiring improvement without seriously disrupting service to the public. As a result, NPS does not take necessary corrective actions. GAO also found that concession rates are not always studied, justified, or documented before approval, and the quality of facilities is given little or no consideration in approving the rates.
Download or read book The status of the National Park Service Concessions Management Program and implementing regulations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation, and Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Capacity for Wonder written by William Lowry and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national parks of North America are great public treasures, visited by 300 million people each year. Set aside to be kept in relatively natural condition, these remarkable places of forests, rivers, mountains, and wildlife still inspire our "capacity for wonder." Today, however, the parks are threatened by increasingly difficult problems from both inside and outside their borders. This book, enriched with personal anecdotes of the author's trips throughout the parks of North America, examines changes in the park services of the United States and Canada over the past fifteen years. William Lowry describes the many challenges facing the parks—such as rising crime, tourism, and overcrowding, pollution, eroding funding for environmental research, and the contentious debate over preservation versus use—and the abilities of the agencies to deal with them. The Capacity for Wonder provides a revealing comparison of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) and the Canadian Parks Service (CPS). The author explains that, while the services are similar in many ways, the priorities of these two agencies have changed dramatically in recent years. Lowry shows how increasing conflicts over agency goals and decreasing institutional support have make the NPS vulnerable to interagency disputes, reluctant to take any risks in its operations, and extremely responsive to political pressures. As a result, U.S. national parks are now managed mainly to serve political purposes. Lowry illustrates how in the 1980s politicians pushed the NPS to expand private uses of national parks through development, timber harvesting, grazing, and mining, while environmental groups push the NPS in the other direction. Over the same period, the CPS enjoyed a clarification of goals and increased institutional supports. As a result, the CPS has been able to decentralize its structure, empower its employees, and renew its commitment to preservation. Lowry considers several proposals to change the institutions governing the parks. His own recommendations are more in line with proposals to revitalize public agencies than with those that suggest replacing them with private enterprise, state agencies, or endowment boards. Lowry concludes that preserving nature should be the primary, explicit goal of the park services, and he calls for a stronger commitment to that goal in the United States.
Download or read book GAO Documents written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.
Download or read book Status of Open Recommendations written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Program Evaluations written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.
Download or read book Federal Evaluations written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.
Download or read book Facilities in Many National Parks and Forests Do Not Meet Health and Safety Standards written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Use Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Land Use Bibliography contains citations and abstracts of land-related documents released by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) from January 1979 through December 1982"--Introduction.
Download or read book Philanthropy and the National Park Service written by J. Vaughn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the National Park Service prepares for its 2016 centennial, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of philanthropy and the national parks - exploring the challenges faced when working with non-profit philanthropic partners.
Download or read book National Park Concessions Policies and Management written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Park Concessions Measures written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Park Service Concessions Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
