Nature affinity and willingness to pay for urban green spaces in a developing country

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 194, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Sabyrbekov, Rahat ^a,c   Dallimer, Martin ^b   Navrud, Stale ^c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA   (Kyrgyzstan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Green infrastructure; Nature relatedness; Social values; Urban greenspace; Urban land use

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GREENSPACE; LAND USE; PLANNING PROCESS; TRADE-OFF; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN REGION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

BISHKEK; KYRGYZSTAN;

EID: 85074639584     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103700     Document Type: Article

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