Sy M. M. auteur aut IRD Rey-Valette H. auteur aut IRD Figuieres C. auteur aut IRD Simier Monique auteur aut IRD De Wit R. auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access Preferences elicitation can be a challenging exercise for citizens participating in assessment surveys. It is even more challenging when it comes to complex and unfamiliar ecosystems and the threatened ecosystem services they provide. Making people aware of the characteristics of the ecosystem services being valued is determinant for the assessment process. We investigated the impact of familiarity and academic information supply on people's preferences for twenty selected ecosystem services of French Mediterranean coastal lagoons. The results show that regardless of familiarity and information supply, there is a strong consensus about the highest importance of regulation and maintenance ecosystem services as well as environmental education and research opportunity ecosystem services. By contrast, nine of the cultural ecosystem services, together with two provisioning ecosystem services showed heterogeneous preferences among the different citizen groups. Using a combination of descriptive and inferential statistics these eleven ecosystem services split up into three clusters characterized as (i) contemplative leisure, (ii) heritage, and (iii) consumptive activities. Familiarity and academic information supply had a strong impact on the preferences for these three clusters of ecosystem services. specialized Preference elicitation Coastal lagoons Citizens' workshop Paternalism Cultural ecosystem services (CES) Veil of ignorance 040 098 036 020 183 106959 [15 p.] 2021 0921-8009 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010081140 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106959 0921-8009 [F B010081140] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010081140 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2021-05/010081140.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2021-05-17 2025-02-24 fdi:010081140 fre