Celio Enrico

Präferenzbefragung zur Landschaft in der UNESCO Biosphäre Entlebuch 
Preference survey on landscape in the UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch: trade-offs in landscape perceptions and political settings

Project Number: CH-4942

Project Type:	Research_Project
Project Duration:	01/01/2013 - 12/31/2013
Funding Source:	other ,
Leading Institution:	ETH Zürich
Project Leader:	Dr. Enrico Celio ETH Spin-off incolab GmbH Hardturmstrasse 261 8005 Zürich Phone: +41 (0) 79 472 13 21 e-Mail: celio(at)incolab.ch

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Research Areas:

Landscape

Disciplines:

Social geography and Ecology

Keywords:
landscape, assessment, participation, scenario, land use, modeling

Abstract:
Landscape configurations, compositions, and its scenic beauty are inherently dependent on institutional arrangements supporting different land uses such as the care of different landscape characteristics or the development of building zones. At the same time, stakeholders’ have preferences for certain landscapes. Understanding how stakeholder preferences for political measures and different landscapes are linked is not straightforward and debated in agricultural, environmental or touristic policy-making (to mention only a few sectors). To understand this link we weigh the robustness of landscape and policy preferences against each other. We use a Bayesian network land use modeling approach (BLUMAP) to elaborate the link between political drivers and the outcome in terms of land use. BLUMAP builds on a structured expert process for setting up the networks as well as the combination of geodata and spatially-explicit questionnaire data capturing local actors characteristics. The spatially-explicit output of our modeling for a future state of land use is the starting point for the creation of 3D landscape visualizations. These visualizations are used to set-up a three-step experimental setting: (1) test persons rank landscape visualizations, (2) test persons rank political settings, (3) test persons rank combined sets of landscape visualizations and political settings. The experimental setting investigates (1) stakeholders’ preferences for the visualizations and political measures and, (2) if stakeholders are coherent and robust in their choices of landscape and political measures. Results show trade-offs made by the local population concerning landscape preferences as well as for preferences for political and economic settings which are used to support local spatial development processes.

Leading questions:
Which landscapes and political measures are preferred by the population of Hasle and Schüpfheim?
Which decision stimulus (landscape or political measures) is more robust?
Which trade-offs concerning landscape and political measures are made by the population of Hasle and Schüpfheim?


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