Integrating socio-spatial preference heterogeneity into the assessment of the aesthetic quality of a Mediterranean agricultural landscape

Albaladejo García, J.A.; Zabala García, José Ángel; Alcón, Francisco; Dallimer, Martín; Martínez Paz, José M.

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Integrating socio-spatial preference heterogeneity into the assessment of the aesthetic quality of a Mediterranean agricultural landscape

dc.contributor.author	Albaladejo García, J.A.
dc.contributor.author	Zabala García, José Ángel
dc.contributor.author	Alcón, Francisco
dc.contributor.author	Dallimer, Martín
dc.contributor.author	Martínez Paz, José M.
dc.contributor.department	Economía Aplicada
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-09T08:25:59Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-09T08:25:59Z
dc.date.copyright	© 2023 The Authors
dc.date.issued	2023-07-22
dc.description.abstract	Assessing ecosystem services associated with agricultural landscapes is of growing interest to the research and policy/practice communities. One particularly challenging aspect to understand is the value of the aesthetic quality of such landscapes, even though this is one of the main contributions that agricultural landscapes make to cultural ecosystem service provision. Indeed, as increasing demands are placed on agricultural landscapes for food production, infrastructure development and urbanisation, aesthetic qualities can be severely affected, particularly if those landscapes are used for traditional agricultural practices. Here we assess the aesthetic quality of an agricultural landscape by integrating social preferences heterogeneity and spatial aspects of the provision, combining subjective and objective perspectives. We work in landscapes dominated by irrigated flowering fruit trees in Cieza, in south-east Spain as it is an excellent example of a semi-arid Mediterranean agroecosystem that delivers multiple ecosystem services, including aesthetic quality, in addition to food production. Using GIS tools and a choice experiment, we assess the social utility function for this landscape, and demonstrate social preferences heterogeneity for demand for the aesthetic qualities of the landscape. Latent class modelling distinguished three populations, with the majority preferring diversified agricultural landscapes and management policies based on a more natural-looking agricultural landscape. These results provide agroecosystem managers with an additional vision focused on enhancing the combination of the most diverse and natural-looking elements in the landscape in order to underpin the delivery of cultural ecosystem services that also increase social well-being.	es
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dc.identifier.citation	Landscape and Urban Planning, 239 (2023) 104846
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104846
dc.identifier.issn	Print: 0169-2046
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 1872-6062
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/139027
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Elsevier	es
dc.relation	Trabajo financiado por el proyecto nacional AgriCambio (Proyecto PID2020-114576RB-I00 financiado por MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033)	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Agriculture	es
dc.subject	Choice experiment	es
dc.subject	Ecosystem services	es
dc.subject	Latent classes	es
dc.subject	Spatial analysis	es
dc.title	Integrating socio-spatial preference heterogeneity into the assessment of the aesthetic quality of a Mediterranean agricultural landscape	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dc.type.version	info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersión
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