The relationship between urban forests and income: A meta-analysis

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 170, Issue , 2018, Pages 293-308

  Gerrish, Ed ^a   Watkins, Shannon Lea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental inequity; Environmental justice; Meta analysis; Urban forests

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; FORESTRY;

ENVIRONMENTAL AMENITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUITY; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGICAL STRATEGIES; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; URBAN FORESTS;

URBAN GROWTH;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; EQUITY; FOREST COVER; INCOME; LITERATURE REVIEW; META-ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN FORESTRY; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 85032949999     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.09.005     Document Type: Review

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