Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2015
In coastal communities with uniform flood risk, amenity value is comprisedof two components – view and access. Having controlled for view, it isassumed that any residual amenity value represents the benefit derived fromaccessing the beach for leisure/recreational purposes. However, asproperties closer to the beach typically have improved viewsheds, the twoamenities are highly correlated, and disentangling view and access isproblematical. A spatial autoregressive hedonic model captures ease of beachaccess via a network distance parameter that varies independently fromproperty viewshed, collinearity effects are mitigated, and access and viewcan be disentangled.