Hedonic methods in housing markets: pricing environmental amenities and segregation

Cities are growing worldwide and their sprawl is increasingly challenged for its pressure on open spaces and environmental quality. Economic arguments can help to decide about the trade-off between preserving environmental quality and developing housing and business surfaces, provided the benefits of environmental quality are adequately quantified. To this end, this book focuses on the use and advancement of the ‘hedonic approach’, an economic valuation techniquethat analyses and quantifies the sources of rent and property price differentials. Starting from theoretical foundations, the hedonic approach is applied to the valuation of natural land use preservation and noise abatement measures,as well as to residential segregation and discrimination, extending the analysis to the role of the buyers and sellers' identity on housing market prices and to the issue of environmental justice. State-of-the-art and recent advancesin hedonic methods illustrated through empirical applications in the housing market Integrates environmental quality, segregation and discrimination into the valuation of land use INDICE: Introduction.- Part I: Methods.- Part II: Applications to Urban Environment Issues.- Part III: Applications to Segregation and Discrimination Issues.- Appendix.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-76814-4
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés