Interior Columbia River Basin: Patterns of Population, Employment, and IncomeChange. The Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Project: Scientific Assessment

摘要

Public expectations for management of public resources are changing, and publicagencies are moving toward sustainable ecosystem management that incorporates information on ecological, economic, and social systems. A broad assessment of these systems is being undertaken for the interior Columbia River Basin. This paper describes some basic population chracteristics of the area and focuses on the economic conditions there during the last seveal decades by using population, personal income, nonfarm labor income, and employment as primary indicators.