The Dynamic Response of Housing Values to a Forest Invasive Disease: Evidence from a Sudden Oak Death Infestation

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 445-471

  Kovacs, Kent ^a   Holmes, Thomas P ^b   Englin, Jeffrey E ^c   Alexander, Janice ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

Author keywords

Difference in differences; Invasive diseases; Spatial hedonic; Sudden oak death

Indexed keywords

HOUSING;

DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES; FOREST PATHOGENS; PERSISTENT PROPERTIES; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; QUERCUS AGRIFOLIA; RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS; SPATIAL HEDONIC; SUDDEN OAK DEATH;

FORESTRY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HOUSING; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; WOODLAND;

DATA PROCESSING; DISEASES; FORESTRY; INFESTATION; MORTALITY; QUERCUS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA];

PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; QUERCUS; QUERCUS AGRIFOLIA;

EID: 79958139011     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-010-9441-y     Document Type: Article

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