Prevention of erosion in mountain basins: A spatial-based tool to support payments for forest ecosystem services

Sacchelli, Sandro; Borghi, Costanza; Grilli, Gianluca

doi:10.17221/5/2021-jfs

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“…Previous studies attempted to identify the demand for Forest Ecosystem Services (FES) and the willingness of civil society to pay for some of these services (Soto et al, 2018;Jo et al, 2021). Others have tried to estimate their value (Accastello et al, 2019;Rijal et al, 2021) or to provide spatial-based tools capable of quantifying, mapping, and valuing FES (Khalfaoui et al, 2020) or assessing payments for such services (Grilli et al, 2020;Sacchelli et al, 2021). However, few researchers have attempted to ask civil society to identify a ranking of ES.…”

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Civil society’s perception of forest ecosystem services. A case study in the Western Alps

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Forest Ecosystem Services (FES) are widely recognised by the society nowadays. However, no study in the literature has analysed a ranking of FES after the pandemic. This paper investigated civil society’s perception and knowledge toward these services; in addition, the presence of attitudinal or behavioural patterns regarding individual’s preference, was assessed. A choice experiment was conducted using the Best-Worst Scaling (BWS) method on a sample of 479 individuals intercepted in the Argentera Valley, in the Western Italian Alps. Results, showed a strong interest in biodiversity, aesthetic landscape quality and psychophysical health and a lower interest in provisioning services. Based on the individual preferences, civil society was clustered into five groups for FES, named “Hedonistic,” “Individualist with cultural and health interests,” “Sensitive to regulatory and utilitarian functions,” “Climate change sensitive” and “Livelihood and hedonistic wellbeing.” In general, there was a growing appreciation by civil society for the intangible services offered by the forest, driven by modern lifestyles and an interest in learning more about the provided services. Based on these elements, we believe that similar research should be extended to other mountain contexts to validate the results or to find new insights, and that it is now necessary to study how to involve civil society in decision-making processes of forest planning and management at a local level.

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