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Marie Curie IEF Contract no. 299794 (European Commission, FP7); INIA RTA2011-00133-C02-02 (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Aragon and FEDER); University of Padua, 60A08-8725/15; Gobierno de Aragon funding to Research Group A14-17R.

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August 4, 2021
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Exploring social preferences for ecosystem services of multifunctional agriculture across policy scenarios

Publicated to:Ecosystem Services. 39 (101002): 101002- - 2019-10-01 39(101002), DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.101002

Authors: Bernues, Alberto; Alfnes, Frode; Clemetsen, Morten; Eik, Lars Olav; Faccioni, Georgia; Ramanzin, Maurizio; Ripoll-Bosch, Raimon; Rodriguez-Ortega, Tamara; Sturaro, Enrico

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Ctr Invest & Tecnol Agroalimentaria Aragon, Zaragoza, Spain - Author
Norwegian Univ Life Sci, Fac Landscape & Soc, As, Norway - Author
Norwegian Univ Life Sci, Sch Econ & Business, As, Norway - Author
Univ Padua, DAFNAE, Legnaro, PD, Italy - Author
Univ Zaragoza, CITA, IA2, Zaragoza, Spain - Author
Wageningen Univ, Anim Prod Syst Grp, Wageningen, Netherlands - Author
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Abstract

Multifunctional agroecosystems are the result of complex adaptive interactions between humans and nature where trade-offs between food production and other ecosystem services are key. Our objective is to explore the social preferences for ecosystem services, and the associated willingness to pay, in three multifunctional agroecosystem in Europe (Mediterranean, Atlantic, Alpine) under alternative agrienvironmental policy scenarios. We use the same methodology (a choice experiment including equivalent attributes and levels) to rank and estimate the economic value of provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural ecosystem services. We define the scenarios (current situation, abandonment and enhanced management) in biophysical terms to elucidate changing relations between social perception and level of delivery of ecosystem services. We derive some lessons. i) Value of ES: biodiversity and regulating ecosystem services always produce welfare gains; people, however, perceive trade-offs between delivery of agricultural landscapes and quality food products. Nevertheless, preferences are heterogeneous and vary across regions, scenarios and ES. ii) Policymaking: society's willingness to pay for the delivery of ecosystem service exceeds largely the current level of public support. Moreover, further abandonment and intensification of agriculture is clearly rejected by the public. iii) Methodological: monetary valuation is context dependent and extrapolation of economic values can be misleading.

Keywords

AbandonmentAgrienvironmental policyChoiceEconomic valuationEconomic valuesIntensificationSocial-ecological systemsSustainabilitySystemsTrade-offs

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Ecosystem Services due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2019, it was in position 8/123, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Environmental Studies. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 2.29. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 4.77 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)
  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 6.27 (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-12, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 49
  • Scopus: 51
  • Google Scholar: 49

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-12:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 132.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 141 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.7.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 4 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Italy; Netherlands; Norway.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Bernues, A) .

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Bernues, A.