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Landscape Economics

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Authors:
  1. Colin Price

    1. Gwynedd, United Kingdom

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  • Presents a comprehensive summary of the techniques, problems and possibilities of economic valuation of landscape
  • Studies the relevance of cost–benefit analysis to land aesthetics
  • Contains case studies of aesthetic valuation
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvii
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  2. The First Hurdle

    • Colin Price
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Costs of Landscape

    • Colin Price
    Pages 11-29

  4. Opportunity Costing of Land: For Landscape Professionals, or for Land Economists?

    • Colin Price
    Pages 31-43

  5. The Constitution of Value

    • Colin Price
    Pages 45-72

  6. Aesthetic Experts’ Approaches

    • Colin Price
    Pages 73-98

  7. Monetising Expert Valuations: Examples with Amenity Trees

    • Colin Price
    Pages 99-111

  8. The Democratic Alternative

    • Colin Price
    Pages 113-132

  9. Cost–Benefit Analysis and Willingness to Pay for Landscape

    • Colin Price
    Pages 133-149

  10. Critiques of Cost–benefit Analysis—and of Alternative Processes

    • Colin Price
    Pages 151-168

  11. Markets and Quasi-Markets

    • Colin Price
    Pages 169-177

  12. Stated Preference Questionnaires

    • Colin Price
    Pages 179-221

  13. The Statistical Basis of Valuation: The Hedonic House Price Model

    • Colin Price
    Pages 223-248

  14. Visited, Traversed and Conjectured Landscape

    • Colin Price
    Pages 249-272

  15. Controlled and Creative Subjectivity: Expert Mediation in Aesthetic Valuation

    • Colin Price
    Pages 273-293

  16. The Utility Effects of Landscape Change

    • Colin Price
    Pages 295-319

  17. Values Over Time

    • Colin Price
    Pages 321-360

  18. Pragmatic Case Studies

    • Colin Price
    Pages 361-381

  19. Macroeconomic Effects

    • Colin Price
    Pages 383-392

  20. Implementing Desired Solutions

    • Colin Price
    Pages 393-401
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About this book

This revised and expanded edition of Colin Price's seminal publication provides a richly comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of landscape economics, a subject which has until now been addressed only in limited aspects. Although much of the book's discussion is based upon natural resources and environmental economics, the author presents a wide and integrative view, drawing from 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.

For those interested in the theoretical aspects of aesthetic valuation, and for those who seeksolutions to practical problems of aesthetic conservation, amelioration and enhancement, this new edition gives an overview of evaluative techniques, of their potential problems and of possible solutions. The updates are a major contribution to the growing literature in the field.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Gwynedd, United Kingdom

    Colin Price

About the author

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’.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Landscape Economics

  • Authors: Colin Price

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54873-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54872-2Published: 24 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85507-3Published: 17 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54873-9Published: 12 October 2017

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XXXVII, 464

  • Number of Illustrations: 87 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urban Economics

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