Journal
LAND USE POLICY
Volume 88, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104200
Keywords
Ecosystem services; Discrete choice experiment; Social preferences; Economic valuation; Urdaibai biosphere reserve
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- Department of Education, University and Research of the Basque Government [PRE_2016_2_0123]
- Department of Education of the Basque Government [IT-642-13]
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [ECO2017-82111-R]
- University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) [US15/11]
- Czech Science Foundation within the EXPRO Program Frontiers in Energy Efficiency Economics and Modelling - FE3M [19-26812X]
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Economic valuation of ecosystem services has emerged as a valuable tool to promote conservation and sustainable land management. Our study adds to this literature, by reporting the results of a discrete choice experiment used to analyse local population preferences and willingness-to-pay for selected ecosystem services resulting from different management scenarios in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve (Biscay, Spain). The ecosystem services considered include quality of water bodies, agricultural production, native forest protection, biodiversity, and recreation. The results indicate that the local population is willing to financially support a new management plan focused on the improvement of ecosystem health and landscape multifunctionality and sustainability, with recreation being the least valued ecosystem service. These findings may be used to inform conservation and management policies to maximize social well-being. They can also help to prioritize investments and allocation of funding and hence minimise land use conflicts.
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