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AUTHOR
Nils Bunnefeld
Sustainable agriculture: Recognizing the potential of conflict as a positive driver for transformative change
International audience; Transformative changes in agriculture at multiple scales are needed to ensure sustainability, i.e. achieving food security while fostering social justice and environmental integrity. These transformations go beyond technological fixes and require fundamental changes in cognitive, relational, structural and functional aspects of agricultural systems. However, research on agricultural transformations fails to engage deeply with underlying social aspects such as differing perceptions of sustainability, uncertainties and ambiguities, politics of knowledge, power imbalances and deficits in democracy. In this paper, we suggest that conflict is one manifestation of such und…
Trust predicts cooperation with conservation conflict interventions in a framed public-goods game
Conservation conflicts are widespread, wicked problems, with damaging environmental and social consequences. Many different types of interventions have been designed and implemented to manage conservation conflicts. However, little attention has been paid as to whether who carries out these interventions is important. In this presentation, I describe how we used a novel experimental framed public goods game to test how stakeholder support for conservation conflict interventions varies with different intervening groups. I then show how we explored whether this variance was explained by differences in trust, since trust in conservation organisations has been identified as important in shaping…
Management and harvesting constraints influence the attainment of wildlife population targets
An increasing number of wildlife populations are the target of intensive management schemes aimed at preventing their extinction or over-abundance, both of which are detrimental to human well-being [1]. These schemes typically involve a manager, whose role is to regulate the activity of those having a direct impact on the wildlife population through legal – and sometimes illegal – harvesting activities, i.e. harvesters. Both manager and harvesters face constraints on their ability to regulate and harvest, respectively, yet how these constraints interact to affect management effectiveness is very rarely considered [2]. Using a novel generalised management strategy evaluation framework [3], w…