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There is gradual recognition that cultural ecosystem services are critical building blocks for human well-being.
Cultural and provisioning services are often intertwined, difficult to separate, and play salient roles in maintaining
local identities. However, multiple studies assume links between cultural ecosystem services and human
well-being, without quantifying relationships. We surveyed a representative sample of the population in the
Lofoten archipelago in northern Norway, a region faced with great policy challenges around resource harvesting
options. Our objective was to examine how public interest in management issues and attachment to place influences
the appreciation of cultural ecosystem services benefits and if these benefits can act as satisfiers of wellbeing.
Findings suggest that cultural ecosystem services provide a salient contribution to quality of life in this
region, and help satisfy the needs of affection, understanding, creation, subsistence, identity, freedom, participation,
protection and leisure. Cultural ecosystem services also constitute salient environmental attributes which
contribute to the basic needs of being, having, doing and interacting. The importance of ecosystem services
benefits for well-being increases with increasing attachment to the Lofoten environment. We argue that not only
the ecosystem services benefits, but the values that emanate from the relationship between people and land
should be given greater attention in land use policy.
Cultural ecosystem services
Satisfiers
Basic human needs
Lofoten
Well-being
Resource policy
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