Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The impact of human–wildlife conflict on natural systems
- 2 The impact of human–wildlife conflict on human lives and livelihoods
- 3 Characterization and prevention of attacks on humans
- 4 Non-lethal techniques for reducing depredation
- 5 Techniques to reduce crop loss: human and technical dimensions in Africa
- 6 Evaluating lethal control in the management of human–wildlife conflict
- 7 Bearing the costs of human–wildlife conflict: the challenges of compensation schemes
- 8 Increasing the value of wildlife through non-consumptive use? Deconstructing the myths of ecotourism and community-based tourism in the tropics
- 9 Does extractive use provide opportunities to offset conflicts between people and wildlife?
- 10 Zoning as a means of mitigating conflicts with large carnivores: principles and reality
- 11 From conflict to coexistence: a case study of geese and agriculture in Scotland
- 12 Hen harriers and red grouse: the ecology of a conflict
- 13 Understanding and resolving the black-tailed prairie dog conservation challenge
- 14 People and elephants in the Shimba Hills, Kenya
- 15 Safari hunting and conservation on communal land in southern Africa
- 16 Socio-ecological factors shaping local support for wildlife: crop-raiding by elephants and other wildlife in Africa
- 17 Jaguars and livestock: living with the world's third largest cat
- 18 People and predators in Laikipia District, Kenya
- 19 Searching for the coexistence recipe: a case study of conflicts between people and tigers in the Russian Far East
- 20 A tale of two countries: large carnivore depredation and compensation schemes in Sweden and Norway
- 21 Managing wolf–human conflict in the northwestern United States
- 22 Policies for reducing human–wildlife conflict: a Kenya case study
- 23 An ecology-based policy framework for human–tiger coexistence in India
- 24 The future of coexistence: resolving human–wildlife conflicts in a changing world
- References
- Index
2 - The impact of human–wildlife conflict on human lives and livelihoods
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The impact of human–wildlife conflict on natural systems
- 2 The impact of human–wildlife conflict on human lives and livelihoods
- 3 Characterization and prevention of attacks on humans
- 4 Non-lethal techniques for reducing depredation
- 5 Techniques to reduce crop loss: human and technical dimensions in Africa
- 6 Evaluating lethal control in the management of human–wildlife conflict
- 7 Bearing the costs of human–wildlife conflict: the challenges of compensation schemes
- 8 Increasing the value of wildlife through non-consumptive use? Deconstructing the myths of ecotourism and community-based tourism in the tropics
- 9 Does extractive use provide opportunities to offset conflicts between people and wildlife?
- 10 Zoning as a means of mitigating conflicts with large carnivores: principles and reality
- 11 From conflict to coexistence: a case study of geese and agriculture in Scotland
- 12 Hen harriers and red grouse: the ecology of a conflict
- 13 Understanding and resolving the black-tailed prairie dog conservation challenge
- 14 People and elephants in the Shimba Hills, Kenya
- 15 Safari hunting and conservation on communal land in southern Africa
- 16 Socio-ecological factors shaping local support for wildlife: crop-raiding by elephants and other wildlife in Africa
- 17 Jaguars and livestock: living with the world's third largest cat
- 18 People and predators in Laikipia District, Kenya
- 19 Searching for the coexistence recipe: a case study of conflicts between people and tigers in the Russian Far East
- 20 A tale of two countries: large carnivore depredation and compensation schemes in Sweden and Norway
- 21 Managing wolf–human conflict in the northwestern United States
- 22 Policies for reducing human–wildlife conflict: a Kenya case study
- 23 An ecology-based policy framework for human–tiger coexistence in India
- 24 The future of coexistence: resolving human–wildlife conflicts in a changing world
- References
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
Human populations interact with wildlife in numerous ways. Our species has directly exploited wild animals for food and furs for millennia and more recently for sporting or cultural reasons. Humans have greatly modified habitats and landscapes through agriculture and other extractive industries with far-reaching and typically negative impacts on wildlife populations. We have also translocated species around the globe, either deliberately or accidentally, with major consequences for native fauna. From the human perspective, our interactions with wildlife are often positive – we gain material benefit from harvesting species for food or other animal products. In other situations, however, human interactions with wildlife are negative. Wild animals may eat our livestock and damage our crops, they may compete with us as hunters for wild prey populations, and they may even injure or kill us. In the previous chapter, we outlined the negative consequences for wildlife that come into conflict with people, focussing on the global and local extirpations and range contractions suffered by a variety of predators and crop-raiders. Here in this second scene-setting chapter, we summarize the negative impacts of threatened wildlife on people. Focussing again on predators and crop-raiders we assess the costs to stakeholders of living with wildlife. We focus on the direct costs to stakeholders of living with wildlife such as loss of human life, livestock, wildlife resources and crops and try to calculate these in financial terms.
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- People and Wildlife, Conflict or Co-existence? , pp. 13 - 26Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
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