Living Near to Attractive Nature? A Well-Being Indicator for Ranking Dutch, Danish, and German Functional Urban Areas

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 501-526

  Daams, Michiel N ^a   Veneri, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Comparative indicators; Functional urban areas; Natural amenities; Population weighted; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028035302     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: 15730921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-016-1375-5     Document Type: Article

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