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The First Hurdle

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Discussing landscape in economic terms is often seen as improper. However, landscape fits easily into the categories of economic goods, being a scarce resource for which consumers have a desire. Its usual characterstics as a public good and an externality mean that it is hard to market. Despite people’s aversion to placing a money value on landscape, it is implicitly valued in these terms whenever decisions about it have financial consequences.

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    Colin Price

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Price, C. (2017). The First Hurdle. In: Landscape Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54873-9_1

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