Since the Kyoto Protocol, established in 1997, the UK government has been committed to reducing greenhouse gases, in particular carbon dioxide (CO2) known to be a major contributor to climate change (global warming). To facilitate this, the DTI published the Energy White Paper in February 2003...

Wind energy is one part of a larger solution to solving the world wide energy crisis. However, as with all new developments, there are costs as well as benefits. In the case of wind farm development it seems that there is little real evidence to substantiate some of the claims for or against it....

The effect of electricity distribution equipment, in particular high-voltage overhead transmission lines (HVOTLs), on the value of residential property in England remains relatively unexplored due, in part, to the lack of available transaction data for analysis. This paper compares the results...

<title>Abstract</title> This paper discusses the findings from a UK study to determine the likely impact of a wind farm on house prices using a hedonic pricing model. The Government's commitment to wind power has resulted in a massive increase in the number of wind farms sited in the UK. This has led to...

Most of the research undertaken into the determinants of office investment markets has examined European and North America cities. Although South-East Asia has been marked by high economic growth from the early 1990s to the mid-1997, it has largely been ignored. With the increasing globalisation...

Studies regarding rational decision issues have been conducted over centuries, and one of the common understandings of rationality in financial terms is that investors are assumed to be risk averse. However, a previous paper, Xu & Dent (2007), identifies that property professionals in both the...

"Cover" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "About the Editors" -- "Note on Contributors" -- "Introduction" -- "Part 1 Gap Analysis: Anomalies and Paradoxes, Questions, Dilemmas and Motivations" -- "Background" -- "Property Market Impacts" -- "Out of the Comfort Zone" -- "The Social...

Determining the impact of detrimental conditions and environmental features such as electricity distribution equipment remains one of the more difficult aspects of property valuation. Since the 1950ís, research aimed at establishing the impact of HVOTLs on the value of residential property has...