Essays about: "human-wildlife conflicts HWC"

Found 3 essays containing the words human-wildlife conflicts HWC.

  1. 1. Impact and Perception of the Human-Wildlife Conflict; a Spatial Case Study of Management and Strategies in Skåne County

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Isabelle Bastholm; Victoria Fransson; [2019]
    Keywords : Human wildlife conflict; HWC; Environmental science; Skåne;

    Abstract : This study seeks to find the best strategies to be implemented to decrease the human-wildlife conflict (HWC). Other countries management practises and strategies to manage HWC was reviewed, in order to identify if Skåne county in Sweden could pursue improvements. READ MORE

  2. 2. Human-wildlife conflict mitigation in Peninsular Malaysia : lessons learnt, current views and future directions

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Stamatios Asimopoulos; [2016]
    Keywords : wildlife; wild animals; Malaysia; environmental conservation; agriculture expansion;

    Abstract : Among the wild animals in peninsular Malaysia tigers and elephants seem to be the most threatened species after the Malaysian rhinoceros which have dwindled to critically low numbers. Agriculture expansion and palm oil production is the main driving force that affects natural habitat of these magnificent mammals bringing people in conflict with wild animals. READ MORE

  3. 3. Wildlife management on communal land in Namibia : an economic approach

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Johanna Forslund; [2007]
    Keywords : wildlife management; common property resource management; collective property rights; economic incentives; human-wildlife conflicts HWC ;

    Abstract : In this paper the anti-poaching effects achieved under the actual implementation of the economically-based system for management and utilization of wildlife (Community Based Natural Resource Management, CBNRM) initiated in Namibia in 1995, is theoretically contrasted to the intended policy design. By contrasting a Nash equilibrium, where the park agency and the local community act like competitors rather than companions, to a collusive equilibrium, where the two actors work together as a united entity, more local anti-poaching activities is found in the latter case. READ MORE