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List of Figures.. List of Tables.. Preface.. List of contributors.. 1. Landscape and economics: Perceptions and perspectives.. Part I.. Rise to the challenge - an awakening to awarenss.. 2. Setting a framework for valuing the multifunctional landscape and its multiple perceptions.. 3. Subjectivity and objectivity in landscape evaluation: An old topic revisited.. 4. From private values to social value of landscapes.. 5. The governance of rural landscapes: Property, complexity and policy.. 6. Governance of protected landscapes and its implications for economic evaluation.. Part II.. Reorientations and reflections - building blocks of landscape economics.. 7. A procedure for determining an optimal landscape and its monetary value.. 8. Evaluation of landscape impacts - enriching the economist's toolbox with the hotspotindex.. 9. Rural landscape and optimal agricultural land use.. Part III.. Worldwide applications and detailed case studies - integration of practices.. 10. An economic evaluation of the grassland landscape in Aso Kuju National Park, Japan.. 11. From an "integrated" to a "dismantled" landscape.. 12. What can hedonic analysis tell us about the value of landscapes?.. 13. The monetary value of open space in urban areas: evidence from a Dutch house price analysis..Part IV.. Outlook for landscape economists - burgeoning perspectives on recreation, agriculture and urban agglomeration.. 14. The importance of landscapes for recreational firms.. 15. Agricultural policies and rural landscape: Some insights from theoretical and empirical literature.. 16. Amenity-driven migration and the spatial distribution of economic activity.. Index

"This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its broadest sense, thereby covering a variety of topics including stakeholder involvement in landscape design, landscape governance and landscape perceptions from different countries. Merely saying that landscapes have value or are important is not sufficient - not when resources are scarce and have alternative uses. Measuring and quantifying the economic value of changes in landscapes would help ensure that landscape management decisions are both (economically) rational and sound." Inglés