Determinants of the prices of bare forestland and premerchantable timber stands: A spatial hedonic study

Forest Science

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 400-406

  Zhang, Daowei ^a   Meng, Li ^b   Polyakov, Maksym ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RISI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bare forestland; Hedonic pricing model; Land valuation; Premerchantable timber stand; Spatial error model

Indexed keywords

FOREST LAND; HEDONIC PRICING MODELS; LAND PRODUCTIVITIES; MARKET PRICE; POPULATION DENSITIES; SPATIAL ERROR MODELS; TIMBER PRODUCTION; TIMBER STANDS;

FORESTRY; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRODUCTIVITY; TIMBER;

COSTS;

EID: 84871790295     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5849/forsci.12-014     Document Type: Article

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