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Biodiversity conservation and valuation Location: Auditorium C: Thore Johnsen Session Chair: Priscilla Creppy, Norwegian University of Life Sciences | |
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Valuing the unseen ocean: Deliberative public preferences for marine biodiversity and plankton ecosystem services 1: Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany; 2: Aarhus University: Roskilde, Denmark Plankton form the foundation of marine biodiversity, providing essential ecosystem functions and services critical for human well-being. Yet, their invisible nature and complexity limit public awareness and challenge the valuation of these services through conventional stated preference methods. This lack of awareness, combined with the absence of economic assessments of plankton ecosystem services, impedes their inclusion in decision-making and the evaluation of changes in their provision, potentially undermining sustainable marine use. To address this gap, we conducted a series of deliberative monetary valuation workshops across Europe to elicit wellinformed public preferences for different protection levels of marine protected areas and plankton ecosystem services. Overall, the results of the deliberative choice experiment indicate a significant public willingness to pay for the sustained provision of plankton ecosystem services. We observed heterogeneity in preferences for carbon sequestration (a specific plankton ecosystem service) and marine biodiversity protection levels across study regions. Furthermore, the results indicate that, on average, respondents have preferences for relatively stringent marine biodiversity protection. However, preferences for the strictest protection status vis-à-vis intermediate strictness were heterogeneous and influenced by the distance of their residence from the coast. | |