Valuing the social benefits of avoiding landscape degradation from overhead power transmission lines: Do underground cables pass the benefit-cost test?

Landscape Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 281-296

  Navrud, Ståle ^a   Ready, Richard C ^b   Magnussen, Kristin ^c   Bergland, Olvar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Sweco Grøner   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Contingent valuation; Cost benefit analysis; Landscape; Power lines

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONTINGENT VALUATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ESTHETICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; POWER LINE; URBAN AREA;

EID: 46649093964     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426390802045921     Document Type: Article

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