Landscape Economics [electronic resource] /
Price, Colin.author.
This book is a revised and expanded edition of Colin Price's seminal original publication, providing a richly comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of landscape economics. Chapters address key issues like natural resources and environmental economics, while presenting a wide and integrative view of aesthetic, psychological, social and political perspectives, and applying a critical use of economic concepts and challenges to different schools of thought on the landscape. This new edition includes new ideas and critiques on environmental valuation; more focused critiques of stated preference methods, political alternatives to economic valuation, and of the rationale of discounting future values; and, new evaluative techniques, particularly price premia for products with a landscape provenance. The updates are a major contribution to the growing literature in the field.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Preface to first edition -- Preface to second edition -- 1. The First Hurdle -- 2. The Costs of Landscape -- 3. The Constitution of Value -- 4. The Approach of the Aesthetic Expert -- 5. Monetising the Expert Valuation: the Helliwell System -- 6. The Expert Approach: the CTLA system -- 7. Cost–benefit analysis and Willingness to Pay -- 8. Consultations and Referenda -- 9. Inquiries and Democratic Discussion Fora: Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence -- 10. Markets, Quasi-markets and Subscriptions -- 11. Stated Preference Questionnaires -- 12. The Statistical Basis of Valuation: the Hedonic House Price Model -- 13. Visited, Traversed and Conjectured Landscape -- 14. Controlled Subjectivity: Expert Mediation in Aesthetic Valuation -- 15. Values over Time -- 16. The Application of Landscape Economics.- 17. Still, not a Featureless Plain -- Appendices.
This book is a revised and expanded edition of Colin Price's seminal original publication, providing a richly comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of landscape economics. Chapters address key issues like natural resources and environmental economics, while presenting a wide and integrative view of aesthetic, psychological, social and political perspectives, and applying a critical use of economic concepts and challenges to different schools of thought on the landscape. This new edition includes new ideas and critiques on environmental valuation; more focused critiques of stated preference methods, political alternatives to economic valuation, and of the rationale of discounting future values; and, new evaluative techniques, particularly price premia for products with a landscape provenance. The updates are a major contribution to the growing literature in the field.
Environmental economics.
Regional planning.
Urban economics.
Environmental Economics.
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.
Urban Economics.