Large Carnivore Conservation and Management: Human Dimensions

ISBN-13: 9780367605889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 364 str.

Tasos Hovardas

Opis

This book argues and demonstrates why human dimensions of relationships to large carnivores are crucial for their successful conservation and management. 

Spis treści

Part I Theoretical and methodological perspectives  1. Addressing human dimensions in large carnivore conservation and management: Insights from environmental social science and social psychology  2. Research amidst the contentious issue of wolf presence: Exploration of reference frames and social, cultural, and political dimensions  3. Socio-political illegal acts as a challenge for wolf conservation and management: Implications for legitimizing traditional hunting practices  4. Situated, reflexive research in practice: Applying feminist methodology to a study of human-bear conflict  5. A methodology for stakeholder analysis, consultation and engagement in large carnivore conservation and management  Part II Heterogeneity in perceptions of and behaviour towards large carnivores  6. A community divided: Local perspectives on the reintroduction of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) to the UK  7. Heterogeneity in perceptions of large carnivores: Insights from Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai, and Ladakh  8. Considering wolves as active agents in understanding stakeholder perceptions and developing management strategies  9. Attitudes towards large carnivore species in the West Carpathians: Shifts in public perception and media content after the return of the wolf and the bear  10. Rural-urban heterogeneity in attitudes towards large carnivores in Sweden, 1976-2014  11. Challenging the false dichotomy of Us vs Them: Heterogeneity in stakeholder identities regarding carnivores  Part III Decision-making, stakeholder involvement, and policy in large carnivore conservation and management  12. Inappropriate consideration of animal interests in predator management: Towards a comprehensive moral code  13. Science, society and snow Leopards: Bridging the divides through collaborations and best practice convergence  14. Between politics and management: Governing large carnivores in Fennoscandia  15. Trans-boundary and trans-regional management of a large carnivore: Managing brown bears across national and regional borders in Europe  16. Good practice in large carnivore conservation and management: Insights from the EU Platform on coexistence between people and large carnivores

 

O autorze

Tasos Hovardas is the Human Dimensions Expert of CALLISTO - Wildlife and Nature Conservation Society, and through CALLISTO, he is providing consultancy services to the EU Platform on Coexistence between People and Large carnivores. Tasos acts as Editor-in-Chief of Society & Natural Resources (2017-2020) together with Prof. Linda Prokopy (2017-2020). He is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching (2017-2020) and a member of the Research in Science & Technology Education Group at the University of Cyprus.