Demand and supply of cultural ecosystem services: Use of geotagged photos to map the aesthetic value of landscapes in Hokkaido

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 24, Issue , 2017, Pages 68-78

  Yoshimura, Nobuhiko ^a   Hiura, Tsutom ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Cultural ecosystem service; Flickr; GIS; MaxEnt; Social networking service

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014049021     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.02.009     Document Type: Article

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