Valuing environmental amenities in peri-urban areas: Evidence from Poland

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2019, Pages

  Sylla, Marta ^a,b   Lasota, Tadeusz ^a   Szewrański, Szymon ^a  

^a WROC AW UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b International Graduate School Zittau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecosystem service; Environmental valuation; Geographically weighted regression; Hedonic pricing; Peri urban; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

AMENITY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GREENSPACE; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; PERIURBAN AREA; PRICING POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; URBAN-RURAL MIGRATION; VALUATION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

POLAND [CENTRAL EUROPE]; WROCLAW [POLAND];

EID: 85060392336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su11030570     Document Type: Article

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