Environmental amenities as results of the urban agglomeration process?

Abstract

The environmental amenity concept, does not reach a consensual definition. So it is important to provide elements of reflexion, likely to define the studied object and to facilitate its management. Economic study of the land market, makes it possible to reveal the individual preferences for the landscape, from an implicit market correctly listed on the Bouches du Rhône region. So on the one hand, environmental amenities can be defined as collective goods, limited to the individuals enjoying them. On the other hand, this goods have a landscape-type vague carcater, not directly attached to a biotope or a particular landscape, but related to urbanization density. Consequently, the absence of institutional regulation appears under optimal and the most adapted management systems are those supporting a balance of the various specialized territories within the growing urban agglomérations.