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

Arbeitspapier

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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: UFZ Discussion Paper ; No. 3/2022

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: 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
• Thema: Agriculture ; Discrete choice experiment ; Ecosystem services ; Nonmarket valuation ; Stated preferences ; Soil functions ; Willingness to pay

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bartkowski, Bartosz ; Massenberg, Julian Richard ; Lienhoop, Nele
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ)
• (wo): Leipzig
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/253268
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ