Landscape Economics

Presents a comprehensive summary of the techniques, problems and possibilities of economic valuation of landscapeStudies the relevance of costbenefit analysis to land aesthetics
Contains case studies of aesthetic valuation

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Colin Price is now a free-lance academic, after a career spanning forty years of teaching and researching in environmental and forestry economics. He received his DPhil in land use economics from Oxford University, having graduated there in forestry. He is author of three books and approximately 250 journal papers. As a result of his academic contributions, Price has been referred to as 'The Father of Landscape Economics'.

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt
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. Costbenefit 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.