Article(electronic)2022

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

Bartkowski, Bartosz; Massenberg, Julian R.; Lienhoop, Nele; Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ

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Abstract

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.

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