How do homebuyers value different types of green space?

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 395-415

  Bark, Rosalind H ^a   Osgood, Daniel E ^b   Colby, Bonnie G ^c   Halper, Eve B ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Golf course; Hedonic model; Locally weighted regression; Open space; Park; Riparian; Spatial

Indexed keywords

EID: 81755172152     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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