An empirical investigation of public choices for green spaces

Land Use Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1123-1131

  Choumert, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

Green spaces; Local public good; Median voter; Public choice; Urban amenity

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GREENSPACE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING METHOD; PUBLIC GOODS; PUBLIC SPACE; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING;

FRANCE;

EID: 77952875368     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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