Leslie Richardson

National Park Service — United States

Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences

12h-index917citations42works2.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Economic and Environmental Valuation(30), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(8), Land Use and Ecosystem Services(6), Forest Management and Policy(5), Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management(5)

Publications41 total

Are Federal Firefighting Costs Worth It? A Benefit–Cost Analysis of Wildfire Suppression Efforts on Public Lands
Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research·2025
Tradeoffs and win‐wins between large landscape conservation and wildlife viewing in protected areas
Conservation Science and Practice·2025Open Access
Economic Benefits of the U.S. National Park System: Travel Costs, Machine Learning, and Social Surplus
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
The Nature of the Beast: Wildlife Valuation from the Iconic to the Ordinary
Annual Review of Resource Economics·2024
Valuing wildlife sightings at the species-wide and individual animal levels: an approach and application to bear viewing in Yellowstone National Park
Human Dimensions of Wildlife·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Fat Tails, Flat Tails, and Willingness to Pay: Kriström Revisited
Land Economics·2024· 2 cited
Ecosystem service values provided by National Parks to residential property owners
Ecological Economics·2024· 12 cited
Testing the convergent validity of approaches for valuing national park visitation
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies·2023
The charisma premium: Iconic individuals and wildlife values
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management·2023· 11 cited
Is one the loneliest number? Impact of tourists' ability to identify individual bears on conservation outcomes
Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism·2023Open Access
Ecosystem Service Values Provided by National Parks to Residential Property Owners
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Valuing impacts of proximity to Saguaro National Park on house prices
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy·2021· 4 cited
Getting to know you: individual animals, wildlife webcams, and willingness to pay for brown bear preservation
American Journal of Agricultural Economics·2021· 11 cited
Methods of Environmental Valuation
2021· 1 cited
Valuing tourism to a historic World War II national memorial
Journal of Cultural Heritage·2020· 3 cited
Stereotype Threat–Based Diversity Programming: Helping Students while Empowering and Respecting Faculty
To improve the academy·2020· 1 citedOpen Access
The unaddressed threat of invasive animals in U.S. National Parks
Biological Invasions·2019· 20 citedOpen Access
Methods of Environmental Valuation
2019· 2 cited
Improving confidence by embracing uncertainty: A meta-analysis of U.S. hunting values for benefit transfer
Ecosystem Services·2018· 12 cited
A method to value nature-related webcam viewing: the value of virtual use with application to brown bear webcam viewing
Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy·2018· 11 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

John B. Loomis(16), Christopher Huber(9), Lynne Lewis(5), Patricia A. Champ(4), Lynne Koontz(3), Julie M. Mueller(3), Ryan A. Fitch(3), Aaron J. Enriquez(3), Holly M. Miller(2), Timm Kroeger(2), Francis X. M. Casey(2), Putri Komala Dara(2), Jeffrey Zabel(2), Paige Smalley(2), Christoph Nolte(2), Robert W. Paterson(2), Jeffrey C. Skibins(2), Isis Artze‐Vega(2), Adrienne L. Traxler(2), Stephen R. Koontz(1)