Provision of urban green spaces: Some insights from economics

Landscape Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 331-345

  Choumert, Johanna ^a   Salanié, Julien ^a  

^a National Institute of Horticulture   (France)

Author keywords

Economic valuation; Externalities; Production; Public good provision

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; GREENSPACE; TRADE-OFF; URBAN POLICY; URBANIZATION; VALUATION;

EID: 46649121217     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426390802045996     Document Type: Article

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