Public attitudes toward urban trees and supporting urban tree programs

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 797-814

  Zhang, Yaoqi ^a   Hussain, Anwar ^b   Deng, Jinyang ^c   Letson, Neil ^d  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Alabama Cooperative Extension System   (United States)

Author keywords

Community participation; Urban forestry; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; URBAN FORESTRY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ALABAMA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35548972960     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916506292326     Document Type: Article

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