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Public perceptions and willingness to pay for cultural ecosystem services
from urban forests
Jaewon Son
a,
⁎,Somidh Saha
a,b
a
Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
b
Institute of Geography and Geoecology (IFGG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
ABSTRACTARTICLE INFO
Keywords:
Cultural ecosystem services
Urban forests
Stakeholders' perceptions
Sociodemographic determinants
Willingness to pay
Nonmaterial values
Urban forests provide diverse cultural ecosystem services such as leisure, aesthetic pleasure, physical and psycholog-
ical benefits, and spiritual experience. As cultural ecosystem services are non-material values, limited research has
measured and analyzed public perceptions of cultural ecosystem services. This talk presents a monetary valuation to
assess the factors influencing public perceptions of cultural ecosystem services provided by urban forests. The presen-
tation suggests that the willingness to pay survey results can show the relations between the valuation of cultural eco-
system services and variables including gender,income, education level, age,familiarity with forest, and willingness to
pay. Moreover, it addresses that citizens' perspectives and their demands, willingness, and involvement in cultural eco-
system services can be analyzed which can be reflected in urban forest management.
Video and Slide to this article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.
1016/j.sctalk.2023.100253.
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⁎Corresponding author.
E-mail address: jae.son@partner.kit.edu (J. Son).
Fig. 1. Ecosystem Services (Source: Own illustration).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sctalk.2023.100253
Received 8 February 2023; Received in revised form 3 May 2023; Accepted 8 June 2023
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Fig. 3. Variables and outcomes from willingness-to-pay (WTP) (Source: Own illustration).
Fig. 2. Cultural Ecosystem Services (Source: Own illustration).
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CRediT authorship contribution statement
Jaewon Son:Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing –original draft,
Visualization. Somidh Saha: Validation,Writing –review &editing, Super-
vision.
Data availability
Data will be made available on request.
Acknowledgments
Funding: Jaewon Son was supported by the Research Grants - Doctoral
Programmes in Germany from German Academic Exchange Services
(DAAD) [57588370].
Declaration of interests
The authors declare that theyhave no known competing financial inter-
ests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the
work reported in this paper.
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Jaewon Son is a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at the Institute
for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karls-
ruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). She is a German Academic
Exchange Serv ice (DAAD) Doctoral Sc holarship holder and
was awarded a Green Talents Aw ard by the German Federal
Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for sustainability
research. She holds a master's degree in International Develop-
ment and Cooperation from Korea University.
Dr. SomidhSaha is a senior scientist and research group leader
at the Institute for Technology Assessmentand Systems Analysis
(ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He searches for
solutionsto increase the social-ecological resilience of forests to
climate change impact through inter- and transdisciplinary ap-
proaches. He focuses on understanding the patterns and pro-
cesses behind the trade-offs between ecosystem services and
involving mul tiple stakeholders to co-create resilien t future
forests.
Fig. 4. Urban forest as a social-ecological system (Source: Own illustration).
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