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Preservation of Open Space and the Concept of Value

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. This paper identifies and classifies six major kinds of values which people ascribe to areas of open space (utility, functional, contemplative, aesthetic, recreational, and ecological values), whether the open space is public or private, urban or rural, or large or small. These values are predominantly culturally‐shaped attitudes. They are not mutually exclusive but nonetheless cannot be subsumed under just one notion of value such as trade‐offs and, consequently, models for evaluating open space based on the familiar utility function are inadequate representations of human reasoning. Public policy concerned with preserving open space must incorporate a multidimensional set of noncommensurate values and one paradigm for doing so is discussed.

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  • David Berry, 1976. "Preservation of Open Space and the Concept of Value," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(2), pages 113-124, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:35:y:1976:i:2:p:113-124
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1976.tb02985.x
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    1. Kline, Jeffrey & Wichelns, Dennis, 1998. "Measuring heterogeneous preferences for preserving farmland and open space," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 26(2), pages 211-224, August.
    2. Duke, Joshua M. & Aull-Hyde, Rhonda, 2002. "Identifying public preferences for land preservation using the analytic hierarchy process," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 42(1-2), pages 131-145, August.

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