Locating Human-Wildlife Interactions: Landscape Constructions and Responses to Large Carnivore Conservation in India and Norway
People′s reactions to large carnivores take many forms, ranging from support and coexistence to resistance and conflict. While these reactions are the outcome of many different factors, in this paper we specifically explore the link between social constructions of landscapes and divergent responses...
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| description | People′s reactions to large carnivores take many forms, ranging from support and coexistence to resistance and conflict. While these reactions are the outcome of many different factors, in this paper we specifically explore the link between social constructions of landscapes and divergent responses to large carnivore presence. We compare case studies from four different landscapes shared by people and large carnivores, in India and Norway. We use social construction of landscapes as a key concept to explore responses to large carnivores in the context of ecological, economic, social, and cultural changes in these areas. Based on this comparison, we argue that the process of change is complex, with a plurality of responses from the groups affected by it. The response to large carnivore presence is influenced by many different factors, of which the interpretation of change-particularly landscape change-plays a significant role. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-57e83ace26bc4102a223ff7371a3e80e2022-12-21T18:37:53ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsConservation & Society0972-49232015-01-0113326527410.4103/0972-4923.170403Locating Human-Wildlife Interactions: Landscape Constructions and Responses to Large Carnivore Conservation in India and NorwaySunetro GhosalKetil SkogenSiddhartha KrishnanPeople′s reactions to large carnivores take many forms, ranging from support and coexistence to resistance and conflict. While these reactions are the outcome of many different factors, in this paper we specifically explore the link between social constructions of landscapes and divergent responses to large carnivore presence. We compare case studies from four different landscapes shared by people and large carnivores, in India and Norway. We use social construction of landscapes as a key concept to explore responses to large carnivores in the context of ecological, economic, social, and cultural changes in these areas. Based on this comparison, we argue that the process of change is complex, with a plurality of responses from the groups affected by it. The response to large carnivore presence is influenced by many different factors, of which the interpretation of change-particularly landscape change-plays a significant role.http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2015;volume=13;issue=3;spage=265;epage=274;aulast=Ghosalchangesocial constructionlandscape interpretationslarge carnivoreshuman-wildlife interactionsIndiaNorway |
| spellingShingle | Sunetro Ghosal Ketil Skogen Siddhartha Krishnan Locating Human-Wildlife Interactions: Landscape Constructions and Responses to Large Carnivore Conservation in India and Norway Conservation & Society change social construction landscape interpretations large carnivores human-wildlife interactions India Norway |
| title | Locating Human-Wildlife Interactions: Landscape Constructions and Responses to Large Carnivore Conservation in India and Norway |
| title_full | Locating Human-Wildlife Interactions: Landscape Constructions and Responses to Large Carnivore Conservation in India and Norway |
| title_fullStr | Locating Human-Wildlife Interactions: Landscape Constructions and Responses to Large Carnivore Conservation in India and Norway |
| title_full_unstemmed | Locating Human-Wildlife Interactions: Landscape Constructions and Responses to Large Carnivore Conservation in India and Norway |
| title_short | Locating Human-Wildlife Interactions: Landscape Constructions and Responses to Large Carnivore Conservation in India and Norway |
| title_sort | locating human wildlife interactions landscape constructions and responses to large carnivore conservation in india and norway |
| topic | change social construction landscape interpretations large carnivores human-wildlife interactions India Norway |
| url | http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2015;volume=13;issue=3;spage=265;epage=274;aulast=Ghosal |
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