Cultural worldviews consistently explain bundles of ecosystem service prioritisation across rural Germany

[摘要] 1. Differences in ecosystem service (ES) priorities often lead to conflicts betweenstakeholders. While differences in priorities have often been described, the sociocultural factors, including differences in cultural worldview, which drive themhave not. We propose that the cultural theory of risk and its ‘grid-group’ typology,which classifies people as individualists, hierarchists, egalitarians and fatalists, canprovide a conceptual framework for doing this.2. We examined the relationship between ES prioritisation by stakeholders and underlying cultural (cultural worldviews, and related environmental nature and riskperceptions), sociocultural (region, stakeholder group, political party preference)and socio-demographic factors. This was achieved by applying multivariate statistics to data from a survey with 321 respondents, conducted across 14 stakeholdergroups in three German regions.3. Results show that most stakeholders prioritised many services but gave the highest priority to services linked to their stakeholder group. We identified four ‘ESpriority bundles’: cultural services, open-land provisioning services, environmental protection services and forest provisioning services.4. Each ES priority bundle was consistently associated with particular culturalworldviews, perceptions of nature and sociocultural factors, meaning that wecould identify ‘cultural types’. Two of these associations were particularly strong:Prioritisation of open-land provisioning ES was high for the agriculture stakeholder group, associated with individualism, a perception of nature as durable butunpredictable, and support for economic liberal, conservative political parties. Incontrast, those who prioritised environmental protection tended to hold egalitarian cultural worldviews and perceive nature as tolerant and sensitive. They alsooften belonged to the research and nature conservation stakeholder groups, witha mostly left-leaning political party preference.

[学科分类] 护理学

[关键词] cultural theory of risk;cultural worldviews;ecosystem service priorities;grid-group typology;stakeholder groups;stakeholders;survey;trade-offs