Land use trade-offs for flood protection: A choice experiment with visualizations

Andrea Nathalie Ryffel, Wolfgang Rid and Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

Ecosystem Services, 2014, vol. 10, issue C, 111-123

Abstract: Hydrological processes respond to changes in land use. Thus, hydrological ecosystem services can be affected by land use trade-offs and need to be considered in both land use management and water management. In this paper we present a choice experiment study from a medium-sized mountainous catchment area in Switzerland investigating individual preferences for long-term land use changes. The study focuses on trade-offs concerning reforestation, settlement development, and river management and on resulting effects on flow regulation and flood protection ecosystem services. Furthermore, the study investigates the influence of political choice recommendations on individual choice behavior.

Keywords: Land use trade-offs; Hydrological ecosystem services; Flood protection; Choice experiment; 3D-visualization; Mountain catchment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.09.008

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