Using choice modeling to map aesthetic values at a landscape scale: Lessons from a Dutch case study

作者：van Zanten Boris T^*; Verburg Peter H; Scholte S S K; Tieskens K F

来源：Ecological Economics, 2016, 130: 221-231.

DOI：10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.07.008

• Ecosystem services
• Mapping
• Landscape values
• Landscape aesthetics
• Choice modeling
• Landscape preferences

Quantifying and mapping ecosystem services is increasingly employed to guide policies in their search for environmental sustainability. In this study, we present a method for mapping aesthetic values as an ecosystem service, combining insights from landscape research and ecosystem service mapping practices. We review or method through a comparison to existing aesthetic value mapping approaches and verify the results through a comparison to a revealed landscape preferences indicator. Disagreenient between the methods arises from many factors, including the type of ecological/landscape features that are assumed to contribute to the provision of aesthetic values, the use of context-specific or generic aesthetic value estimates, the scale of landscape evaluation and the level of integration of the landscape preference analysis. We argue that the approach presented here is a suitable generically applicable methodology for context-sensitive mapping of aesthetic landscape values for a number of reasons: (i) a careful and transparent selection process of landscape attributes, (ii) the use of primary preference data, (iii) an integrated evaluation of landscape attributes introducing trade-offs between specific features in the agricultural landscape and (iv) application of visual landscape scale manipulated photographs for the elicitation of preferences as a surrogate for a real landscape experience.

• 出版日期2016-10