Valuing environmental assets on rural lifestyle properties

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 159-175

  Polyakov, Maksym ^a   Pannell, David J ^a   Pandit, Ram ^a   Tapsuwan, Sorada ^a   Park, Geoff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b North Central Catchment Management Authority   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Lifestyle landowners; Native vegetation; Spatial hedonic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878869868     PISSN: 10682805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S106828050000767X     Document Type: Article

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