1st Edition
Environmental Valuation Interregional and Intraregional Perspectives
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
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Environmental quality is one of the most important issues faced by contemporary urban and regional policy. Amenities such as access to the natural environment, attractive neighbourhood characteristics and high quality public goods and services, play a direct role in determining where people choose to live and how much they are willing to do so. Likewise, negative environmental conditions, such as... Read more
Contents: Part I Interregional Perspectives: Environmental valuation: connecting theory, evidence and public policy, John I. Carruthers and Gordon F. Mulligan; Environmental valuation using cross-city hedonic methods, Matthew E. Kahn; Amenity valuation and migration behavior, Roxanne Ezzet-Loftstrom; Amenity valuation, incomplete compensation, and migration, David E. Clark; The impact of public services on quality of life and housing markets, Robyn K. Welch and Brigitte S. Waldorf. Part II Intraregional Perspectives: Environmental contamination and house values, Katherine A. Kiel; The benefits of environmental improvements in a low-income area: the Grand Calumet River dredging plan in Gary, Indiana, Daniel P. McMillen; Capitalization of environmental amenities at the urban-rural fringe, Diane Hite and Brent Sohngen; Remotely sensed proxies for environmental amenities in hedonic analysis: what does "green" mean?, Rosalind Bark-Hodgins, Daniel E. Osgood, and Bonnie G. Colby; Maximizing the value of greenways: the case of the Catawba regional trail in the Carolinas, Darla K. Munroe; The valuation of wetlands: primary versus meta-analysis based value transfer, Luke M. Brander and Raymond J.G.M. Florax; Valuing amenities of new urbanist communities, Yan Song and Gerrit-Jan Knaap; A note on the valuation of jurisdictional-level infrastructure and services, Shishir Mathur; Some closing thoughts on the study of environmental valuation, John I. Carruthers and Bill Mundy; Index.
Biography
John I. Carruthers U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research Washington. Bill Mundy, Greenfield Advisors, LLC, Seattle, USA
