Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/253268 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
UFZ Discussion Paper No. 3/2022
Publisher: 
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ), Leipzig
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.
Subjects: 
Agriculture
Discrete choice experiment
Ecosystem services
Nonmarket valuation
Stated preferences
Soil functions
Willingness to pay
JEL: 
Q15
Q24
Q51
Q57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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