The economic valuation of landscape change
Subtitle: theory and policies for land use and conservation
By: José Manuel L. Santos.
Series: New horizons in environmental economics
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Edward Elgar Pub
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Landscape protection -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain; Landscape protection -- Economic aspects -- Europe; Regional planning -- Environmental aspects -- Great Britain; Regional planning -- Environmental aspects -- Europe; Land use -- Great Britain -- Planning; Land use -- Europe -- Planning
Description: The increase in landscape degradation in the last decades has resulted in a growing public concern for policies to conserve the countryside. This book presents theories of valuation and economic welfare which are applied to policies to conserve the landscape. Environmental, agricultural and ecological economists will be interested in this book as will geographers and those involved in planning and countryside management.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.