Are large carnivores the real issue? Solutions for improving conflict management through stakeholder participation
Salvatori, Valeria (Istituto di Ecologia Applicata)
Balian, Estelle (Facilitation for Environmental Action and Learning)
Blanco, Juan Carlos (Consultores en Biologia de la Conservacion S.L.)
Carbonell, Xavier (ARC Mediacion Ambiental)
Ciucci, Paolo (Sapienza Università di Roma. Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "Charles Darwin")
Demeter, László (National Agency for Protected Areas (Romania))
Marino, Agnese (Zoological Society of London. Institute of Zoology)
Panzavolta, Andrea
Sólyom, Andrea (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania)
von Korff, Yorck (Flow-ing (France))
Young, Juliette (French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE))

Data:	2021
Resum:	Social conflicts around large carnivores are increasing in Europe, often associated to the species expansion into human-modified and agricultural landscapes. Large carnivores can be seen as an added value by some but as a source of difficulties by others, depending on different val-ues, attitudes, livelihoods, and everyday activities. Therefore, the effective involvement of the different interest groups is important to identify and shape tailored solutions that can potentially be implemented, complementing top-down approaches that might, on their own, result in lack of implementation and buy-in. To improve dialogue in conflictual situations, as part of a European project promoted by the European Parliament, we assessed the practical implementation of participatory processes in three sample areas in Europe where wolves and bears have recently been increasingly impacting human activities. Our results demonstrate that collaboration among different and generally contrasting groups is possible. Even in situations where large-carnivore impacts were seen as unsatisfactorily managed for many years, people were still willing and eager to be involved in alternative discussion processes hoping this would lead to concrete solutions. An important and common highlight among the three study areas was that all the management interventions agreed upon shared the general scope of improving the conditions of the groups most impacted by large carnivores. The process showed the importance of building trust and supporting dialogue for knowledge co-production and mitigation of conflicts between stakeholders and that controversial environmental issues have the potential to trigger a meaningful dialogue about broader societal issues. The direct involvement and support of competent authorities, as well as the upscaling of this process at larger administrative and social scales, remain important challenges.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Co-production ; Large-carnivore management ; Participatory processes ; Stakeholder involvement ; SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Publicat a:	Sustainability, Vol. 13, Issue 8 (April 2021) , art. 4482, ISSN 2071-1050

DOI: 10.3390/su13084482

24 p, 1.4 MB

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