Between complexity and unfamiliarity: Preferences for soil-based ecosystem services

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Soils provide multiple benefits for human well-being, which are largely invisible to most beneficiaries. Here, we present the results of a discrete choice experiment into the preferences of Germans for soil-based ecosystem services. To tackle complexity and unfamiliarity of soils, we express soil-based ecosystem service attributes relative to the site-specific potential of soils to provide them. We investigate how knowledge about soils, awareness of their contributions to human well-being and experience with droughts and floods affect the preferences. We find substantial yet heterogeneous preferences for soil-based ecosystem services. Only some measures of familiarity exhibit significant effects on preferences.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: UFZ Discussion Paper ; No. 3/2022

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: Land ; Valuation of Environmental Effects ; Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology
• Subject: Agriculture ; Discrete choice experiment ; Ecosystem services ; Nonmarket valuation ; Stated preferences ; Soil functions ; Willingness to pay

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bartkowski, Bartosz ; Massenberg, Julian Richard ; Lienhoop, Nele
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ)
• (where): Leipzig
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/253268
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET