Can money buy green? demographic and socioeconomic predictors of lawn-care expenditures and lawn greenness in urban residential areas

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 744-760

  Zhou, Weiqi ^a   Troy, Austin ^a   Morgan Grove, J ^b   Jenkins, Jennifer C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltimore; Lifestyle behavior; Long term ecological research (LTER); NDVI; Population; Social stratification; Urban ecology; Urban lawn

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; GREENSPACE; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; LANDSCAPE; LIFESTYLE; NDVI; NEIGHBORHOOD; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN AREA;

BALTIMORE; GWYNNS FALLS; MARYLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70449486879     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920802074330     Document Type: Article

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