A comparison of municipal forest benefits and costs in Modesto and Santa Monica, California, USA

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 61-74

  McPherson, E Gregory ^a,b   Simpson, James R ^a  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic analysis; Natural resource economics; Urban forest valuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 30744472445     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1618-8667-00007     Document Type: Article

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