The importance of considering human well-being to understand social preferences of ecosystem services

Primer Autor
Meli, Paula
Co-autores
Vieli, Lorena
Spirito, Florencia
Reyes-Riveros, Rosa
Gonzalez-Suhr, Carolina
Altamirano, Adison
Título
The importance of considering human well-being to understand social preferences of ecosystem services
Editorial
ELSEVIER GMBH
Revista
JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION
Lenguaje
en
Resumen
Evaluations about social preferences for ecosystem services do not always include human well-being. Using a case study in South-Central Chile, we showed how the human well-being approach might reveal social preferences on ecosystem services. We used a socio-cultural approach to compare social preferences for provisioning, regulating, and cultural services and the links people establish to human well-being. From an online questionnaire, we collected 214 responses, balanced in gender (49/51 % men/women, respectively), diverse in age (18 to 62 years), but with 68 % under 30 years. Water for human consumption and agriculture, food, and native forest products were the most preferred provisioning services (40, 28, and 21 %, respectively). In contrast, products from tree plantations were considered the lowest ones. Pollution control (40 %) and water provision during summer (18 %) were the preferred regulating services, while biodiversity conservation (25 %) and environmental education (22 %) were primarily selected cultural ones. We found a clear preference pattern for provisioning services but not for regulating and cultural services. Even though people linked multiple ES to human well-being, some links' patterns mirrored preferences for provisioning services but not for regulating and cultural services. However, although cultural services did not show a clear preference pattern, people perceived their importance by linking them to various benefits. Understanding social preferences of ES based on their links with human well-being helps to address their relevance and potential trade-offs for land planning and management decision-making and convert the ES concept into decision-making instruments.
Fecha Publicación
2023
Tipo de Recurso
artículo original
doi
10.1016/j.jnc.2023.126344
Formato Recurso
PDF
Palabras Claves
Benefits
Cascade model
Cultural services
Ecosystem functions
Ecosystem services valuation
Socio-cultural valuation
Ubicación del archivo
Categoría OCDE
Biodiversidad y Conservación
Ciencias Ambientales y Ecología
Materias
Beneficios
modelo en cascada
Servicios culturales
Funciones del ecosistema
Valoración de servicios ecosistémicos
Valoración sociocultural
Identificador del recurso (Mandatado-único)
artículo original
Versión del recurso (Recomendado-único)
versión publicada
Derechos de acceso
metadata
Access Rights
metadata
Id de Web of Science
WOS:000924321000001
ISSN
1617-1381
Tipo de ruta
hibrida
Categoría WOS
Biodiversidad y Conservación
Ciencias Ambientales y Ecología
Referencia del Financiador (Mandatado si es aplicable-repetible)
ANID 11191021
ANID 1171445
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