PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Julia Bronnmann
AU  - Veronika Liebelt
AU  - Fabian Marder
AU  - Jasper Meya
AU  - Martin Quaas
TI  - The Value of Naturalness of Urban Green Spaces: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment
AID  - 10.3368/le.99.4.062321-0072R1
DP  - 2023 Feb 23
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 062321-0072R1
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2023/02/17/le.99.4.062321-0072R1.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2023/02/17/le.99.4.062321-0072R1.full
AB  - The range of benefits for humans and biodiversity conservation provided by urban green spaces (UGS) receives substantial attention in relation to urban planning and management. However, little is known about the value of nature in UGS. We developed a graphical measurement scale for the naturalness of UGS, with 5 steps between largely sealed and largely wilderness, which was embedded in an online survey and a discrete choice experiment. Using mixed logit models, we find that German citizens have a mean willingness to pay of €20.25 per month for an increase in the naturalness of the closest UGS by one step.