TY - JOUR
T1 - Patriotic values for public goods
T2 - transnational trade-offs for biodiversity and ecosystem services?
AU - Dallimer, Martin
AU - Jacobsen, Jette Bredahl
AU - Lundhede, Thomas
AU - Takkis, Krista
AU - Giergiczny, Marek
AU - Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark
N1 - Advance Access publication 26 November 2014
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - The natural environment is central to human well-being through its role in ecosystem service (ES) provision. Managing ES often requires coordination across international borders. Although this may deliver greater conservation gains than countries acting alone, we do not know whether the public supports such an international approach. Using the same questionnaire in three countries, we quantified public preferences for ES in home countries and across international borders. In all three countries, the people were generally willing to pay for ES. However, our results show that there is a limit to the extent that environmental goods can be considered global. ES with a use element (habitat conservation, landscape preservation) attracted a patriotic premium, such that the people were willing to pay significantly more for locally delivered services. Supranational management of ES needs to be balanced against the preferences that people have for services delivered in their home countries.
AB - The natural environment is central to human well-being through its role in ecosystem service (ES) provision. Managing ES often requires coordination across international borders. Although this may deliver greater conservation gains than countries acting alone, we do not know whether the public supports such an international approach. Using the same questionnaire in three countries, we quantified public preferences for ES in home countries and across international borders. In all three countries, the people were generally willing to pay for ES. However, our results show that there is a limit to the extent that environmental goods can be considered global. ES with a use element (habitat conservation, landscape preservation) attracted a patriotic premium, such that the people were willing to pay significantly more for locally delivered services. Supranational management of ES needs to be balanced against the preferences that people have for services delivered in their home countries.
U2 - 10.1093/biosci/biu187
DO - 10.1093/biosci/biu187
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0006-3568
VL - 65
SP - 33
EP - 42
JO - BioScience
JF - BioScience
IS - 1
ER -