Have housing prices gone with the smelly wind? Big data analysis on landfill in Hong Kong

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Li, Rita Yi Man ^a   Li, Herru Ching Yu ^b  

^a HONG KONG SHUE YAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advertisement; Externality; Landfill; Property prices; Wind direction

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; BUILDING; DATA INTERPRETATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HOUSING; LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ODOR; PRICE DYNAMICS; PROPERTY MARKET; WIND DIRECTION;

CHINA; HONG KONG; NEW TERRITORIES;

EID: 85041221131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su10020341     Document Type: Article

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