Public Greenspace and Life Satisfaction in Urban Australia
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Public greenspace and life satisfaction in urban Australia
This paper examines the influence of public greenspace on the life satisfaction of residents of Australia’s capital cities. A positive relationship is found between the percentage of public greenspace in a resident’s local area and their self-reported life satisfaction. On average, it is found that a resident has an implicit willingness-to-pay of $1,168 in annual household income for a one-per-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Urban Studies
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0042-0980,1360-063X
DOI: 10.1177/0042098013494417