With rapid urban expansion and loss of open space, attractive local landscapes will continue
to gain importance in location decisions and on political agendas. The present study reviews …

Recent work challenges the notion that attracting creative workers to a place is sufficient for
generating local economic growth. In this article, we examine the problem of sustaining …

In this study, we analyze the preferences for recreational use of forests in Lorraine
(Northeastern France), applying stated preference data. Our approach allows us to estimate …

This paper assesses the value of urban green spaces, specifically peri-urban forests and
their potential substitutes, for the local population on the basis of their residential choice. We …

Effective urban planning depends on knowing homebuyers' preferences for neighbourhood
features that provide different amenities, such as managed parks and trees. As the …

In recent years mountain pine beetles (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae, along with several
other bark beetle species, have severely damaged coniferous forests in the western United …

Open space lands, national forests in particular, are usually treated as homogeneous
entities in hedonic price studies. Failure to account for the heterogeneous nature of public …

Rural amenity migration, or the relocation for quality of life purposes as opposed to monetary
enhancement, has been occurring for decades and has been particularly pronounced in the …

The objective of this research is to quantify the economic value of access to irrigation for
agricultural lands in rural Nepal, while controlling for the effects of social institutions that can …

Lockdown measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a rise in people's
visits to forests and urban green spaces. However, as vaccination efforts progressed and …