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The impact of academic information supply and familiarity on preferences for ecosystem services

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  • Mariam Maki Sy

    (UMR MARBEC - MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer - UM - Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Helene Rey-Valette

    (CEE-M - Centre d'Economie de l'Environnement - Montpellier - UM - Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement)

  • Charles Figuières

    (AMSE - Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Monique Simier

    (UMR MARBEC - MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer - UM - Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Rutger de Wit

    (UMR MARBEC - MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer - UM - Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Preferences elicitation can be a challenging exercise for citizens participating in assessment surveys. It is even more challenging when it comes to complex and unfamiliar ecosystems and the threatened ecosystem services they provide. Making people aware of the characteristics of the ecosystem services being valued is determinant for the assessment process. We investigated the impact of familiarity and academic information supply on people's preferences for twenty selected ecosystem services of French Mediterranean coastal lagoons. The results show that regardless of familiarity and information supply, there is a strong consensus about the highest importance of regulation and maintenance ecosystem services as well as environmental education and research opportunity ecosystem services. By contrast, nine of the cultural ecosystem services, together with two provisioning ecosystem services showed heterogeneous preferences among the different citizen groups. Using a combination of descriptive and inferential statistics these eleven ecosystem services split up into three clusters characterized as (i) contemplative leisure, (ii) heritage, and (iii) consumptive activities. Familiarity and academic information supply had a strong impact on the preferences for these three clusters of ecosystem services.

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  • Mariam Maki Sy & Helene Rey-Valette & Charles Figuières & Monique Simier & Rutger de Wit, 2021. "The impact of academic information supply and familiarity on preferences for ecosystem services," Post-Print hal-03119760, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03119760
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106959
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    1. Chapman, Andrew & Shigetomi, Yosuke & Karmaker, Shamal Chandra & Saha, Bidyut & Brooks, Caleb, 2022. "Cultural and demographic energy system awareness and preference: Implications for future energy system design in the United States," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 112(C).
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    3. Rey-Valette, Hélène & Salles, Jean-Michel & Blayac, Thierry, 2024. "Perceptions of Ecosystem Services and Bonds with Nature: The Case of Fish-Farming Ponds in France," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 217(C).

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