Who’s in Conflict with Whom? Human Dimensions of the Conflicts Involving Wildlife

摘要: Some of the most high-profile wildlife conservation cases in world have been addressed within emerging field human–wildlife conflict (HWC). Although HWC is often defined as any situation where comes into with humans over common resources, term has applied almost exclusively to involving charismatic mega-fauna, such large-bodied herbivores and top predators. What these animals not magnitude damage they cause or their status, but power elicit strong mixed opinions among broad sectors society, which results clashes between groups people who hold differing values toward management. As society becomes more diversified varied views on human domination nature, conflicts will grow intensity frequency. In this chapter, I discuss importance dimensions perspective for effectively understanding resolving HWC; an approach that goes beyond traditional ecological economic considerations about reciprocal negative impacts, by addressing also complexity causal relationship thoughts actions wildlife, disagreements management objectives.