Valuing public and private urban tree canopy cover

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 453-470

  Pandit, Ram ^a   Polyakov, Maksym ^a   Sadler, Rohan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Astron Environmental Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

Private space; Property price; Spatial hedonic model; Spatiotemporal lag; Tree canopy cover

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HOMEOWNER; PROPERTY MARKET; PUBLIC SPACE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREE; URBAN PLANNING;

AUSTRALIA; PERTH [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84903899765     PISSN: 1364985X     EISSN: 14678489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8489.12037     Document Type: Article

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