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标题：Preferences of Local People for the Use of Peatlands: the Case of the Richest Peatland Region in Finland
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作者：Anne Tolvanen ; Artti Juutinen ; Rauli Svento 等
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2013
卷号：18
期号：2
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：We analyze the potential for socioeconomically sustainable peatland use by investigating conflicting interests,revealing trade-offs that people are willing to accept, and studying whether opinions are dependent on socioeconomic anddemographic factors. Opinions toward five forms of peatland use and seven peatland ecosystem services were surveyed inNorthern Ostrobothnia in northern Finland in 2011. Choice experiment (CE) was used to reveal trade-offs in land use preferences,and groups of respondents were identified using the latent class model (LCM). We identified three classes of respondents inwhich environmentalists showed a high preference toward the cessation of peat production and increase of peatland restoration,the production-oriented class preferred an increase in timber and peat production areas, and the current use supporters agreedon the present land use policy. However, all respondent classes agreed on the increase of nature protection and the present levelof timber production and disagreed on the cessation of restoration. The CE revealed that environmentally minded people whoare likely to consider the indirect use values and existence values important are less willing to make trade-offs between ecosystemservices than those who emphasize direct use values. Because peatland restoration occurs in commercially unproductivepeatlands, it improves both the direct use and existence values without reducing provisioning services of peatlands. Therefore,restoration is commonly accepted by the public, in contrast to management options that involve clear trade-offs betweenecosystem services. We conclude that the understanding of preferences and trade-offs can enhance sustainable land use planning.It may be unrealistic, however, to expect a solution that all interest groups would completely accept
关键词：choice experiment; conflict management; ecosystem services; land use management