Scholars spanning a variety of disciplines have studied the ways in which contact with
natural environments may impact human well‐being. We review the effects of such nature …

This article surveys the literature on tourism and economic development, identifying the
contribution that tourism can make to development, including foreign currency, income and …

This new edition of The Economics of Tourism reflects the tremendous changes that have
occurred in the tourism sector in the last twelve years. It recognizes that the nature of tourism …

A house is made up of many characteristics, all of which may affect its value. Hedonic
regression analysis is typically used to estimate the marginal contribution of these individual …

The article presents the result from a Danish survey on access and use of green areas and
the impact on experienced stress and obesity. The statistical results indicate that access to a …

Urban green spaces have important amenity values that include provision of leisure
opportunities and aesthetic enjoyment. However, most of these values lack a market price …

The marginal values of different open space attributes are tested using a hedonic pricing
model with residential sales data from central Maryland. The identification problems that …

This paper develops a spatial hedonic model to explain residential values in a region within
a 30-mile radius of Washington DC. Hedonic models of housing or land values are …

We use hedonic analysis of home transaction data from the Minneapolis–St. Paul
metropolitan area to estimate the effects of proximity to open space on sales price. We allow …

Urban tree cover benefits communities. These benefits' economic values, however, are
poorly recognized and often ignored by landowners and planners. We use hedonic property …