Welcome to Society and Wildlife
Society and Wildlife is an interdisciplinary platform, initiated by researchers at the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and the Department of Political Science at Umeå University.
Our aim is to contribute to a sustainable management and use of wildlife and it's habitats for future generations. Human–wildlife conflicts are a serious obstacle to the conservation of and sustainable use of wildlife and are increasing throughout the world due to multiple and often interacting factors including habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation from increasing human demand on natural resources, diffuse pollution, increased human activity in wild areas and climate change.
We acquire new knowledge on the interaction between society and nature, effective and legitimate governance, and social aspects of management in combination with wildlife biology. A key concept is to study the effect of ecological change on human-wildlife interactions.
Thanks to the early progressive international work starting with the Bern Convention to conserve wild flora and fauna and their natural habitats, and to promote European co-operation in the field, many countries are in a positive situation that habitat and species are being restored to their former territories.
The naturally occurring ecological changes have major implications for the governance, i.e. the creation of a setting in which actors can manage wildlife effectively, and the making and implementation of operational decisions of wildlife. Ecological change thus evokes human responses and these responses can only be understood if interdisciplinary social sciences-based perspectives, addressing both the individual and collective responses, are added to the natural sciences based knowledge.
Society and Wildlife is an interdisciplinary platform, initiated by researchers at the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and the Department of Political Science at Umeå University.
Our aim is to contribute to a sustainable management and use of wildlife and it's habitats for future generations. Human–wildlife conflicts are a serious obstacle to the conservation of and sustainable use of wildlife and are increasing throughout the world due to multiple and often interacting factors including habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation from increasing human demand on natural resources, diffuse pollution, increased human activity in wild areas and climate change.
We acquire new knowledge on the interaction between society and nature, effective and legitimate governance, and social aspects of management in combination with wildlife biology. A key concept is to study the effect of ecological change on human-wildlife interactions.
Thanks to the early progressive international work starting with the Bern Convention to conserve wild flora and fauna and their natural habitats, and to promote European co-operation in the field, many countries are in a positive situation that habitat and species are being restored to their former territories.
The naturally occurring ecological changes have major implications for the governance, i.e. the creation of a setting in which actors can manage wildlife effectively, and the making and implementation of operational decisions of wildlife. Ecological change thus evokes human responses and these responses can only be understood if interdisciplinary social sciences-based perspectives, addressing both the individual and collective responses, are added to the natural sciences based knowledge.
