Landscape Economics

1. Not a Featureless Plain

   • Colin Price

   Pages 403-429

2. Back Matter

   Pages 431-464

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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.

• Land-use planning
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Landscape aesthetics
• landscape economics
• Spatial planning
• economics, geography and spatial planning
• Landscape values
• Ecological economics
• Environmental economics
• Natural resources
• Environmental valuation
• CTLA system
• Helliwell system
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Gwynedd, United Kingdom

  Colin Price

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’.

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