standing of resource capacities. Yet from the 

 viewpoint of the public land manager some- 

 thing more needs to be considered — com- 

 munity and regional dynamics. To accom- 

 plish sound management, resources must be 

 related not only to each other but to settle- 

 ment patterns, markets, access, and to the 

 changing nature of these factors. These 

 things are not constants, and cannot be 

 ignored. The public land manager's job is 

 not just to maximize product output. He 

 must find a balance between resource capaci- 

 ties and community demands. He needs some 

 guidelines for doing this. Area-oriented mul- 

 tiple use analysis can provide these guide- 

 lines. 



In multiple use land management, there 

 are resource capabilities on the one hand, 

 needs and wants of the people on the other, 

 and the interaction between them (fig. 2). 

 Until research likewise encompasses all 

 three, it cannot satisfy the requirements of 

 the land manager. Only by examining spe- 

 cific situations on the ground is it possible 

 to effectively analyze these relations and 

 thereby identify the land use issues — hence, 

 the necessity for area-oriented, or areal 

 analysis. 



Resource-oriented and area-oriented stud- 

 ies in multiple use may be indistinguishable 

 in some respects inasmuch as a large body 

 of material is common to both fields. Both 

 are concerned with the interrelations among 

 resources. However, their viewpoints are 

 quite different. The major objective of re- 

 source-oriented studies is the discovering of 

 relationships among the resources and their 

 uses. Areal studies have as their core ob- 

 jective the analysis of specific resource sit- 

 uations in particular areas. They deal not 

 only with the supply of resources, but also 

 with demand in a rather comprehensive way. 

 Areal analysis draws from resource studies 

 that information needed to describe resource 

 potentials of the area in question, and relates 

 this to the changing local and regional de- 

 mand for those resources. A fuller explana- 

 tion of this follows. 



Both kinds of multiple use analysis are 

 essential and should be encouraged. They are 

 complementary. Some fine progress is being 

 made in resource-oriented studies, but the 

 field of areal multiple use analysis has been 

 little cultivated. The remainder of this paper 

 discusses the methods and issues involved 

 in areal analysis. 



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Figure 2. — Schematic diagram of multiple use management of the land. 



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