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来源

URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING,Vol.38,P.330-336

语言

英文

关键字

Hedonic; Urban forestry; Non-market valuation; Tampa; Externality; CITY; ENVIRONMENT; FOREST; CRIME

作者单位

[Donovan, Geoffrey H.] US Forest Serv, USDA, PNW Res Stn, 620 SW Main,Suite 502, Portland, OR 97205 USA. [Landry, Shawn] Univ S Florida, Sch Geosci, 4202 E Fowler Ave,NES107, Tampa, FL 33620 USA. [Winter, Cody] Environm Protect Commiss, 3629 Queen Palm Dr, Tampa, FL 33619 USA. Donovan, GH (reprint author), US Forest Serv, USDA, PNW Res Stn, 620 SW Main,Suite 502, Portland, OR 97205 USA. E-Mail: gdonovan@fs.fed.us; landry@usf.edu; winterc@epchc.org

摘要

We examined the relationship between urban trees and the sales price of single-family homes in Tampa, Florida. We chose Tampa, because the city is facing major redevelopment pressure that may impact the association between trees and house price. In particular, a frequently voiced view in Tampa's development community is that trees adversely affect the value of houses that are being sold for redevelopment. We estimated hedonic models of sales price controlling for house and neighborhood characteristics and correcting for spatial auto-correlation (n = 1,924). We found that trees within 152m (500 feet) of a house's lot were significantly associated with higher sales prices. Specifically, a 1-percentage point increase in tree-canopy cover was associated with a total increase in sales price of $9,271 to $9,836 (results were largely insensitive to correction for spatial autocorrelation). Our results demonstrate that, even in a city facing major redevelopment pressure, trees are associated with higher sales prices.