A quantitative analysis of public preferences for the wild boar management in urban and rural China
Human-wildlife conflict is rapidly evolving in response to significant ecological, social, and economic changes affecting society globally. Developing objective and acceptable resolution strategies is challenging because of divergence in perceptions and understandings of human-wildlife conflict betw...
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| author | Xue-Hong Zhou Wei Zhang Dong-Yan Tang Zhen Miao Qiang Wang Douglas C. MacMillan |
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| description | Human-wildlife conflict is rapidly evolving in response to significant ecological, social, and economic changes affecting society globally. Developing objective and acceptable resolution strategies is challenging because of divergence in perceptions and understandings of human-wildlife conflict between urban and rural populations, and this disparity is increasing with rapid urbanization. In this study, we explore preferences for wild boar conflict management in China using a mixed methods approach of a survey, choice experiments, and interviews. We found that significant differences in the preferences of wild boar management exist between rural and urban residents. The majority of rural residents preferred hunting whereas most urban residents in cities remote from the conflict preferred non-hunting measures. However, we found that economic cost played an important role in influencing public preferences for management measures. The urban population had positive preferences for hunting if they were required to pay an environmental tax to compensate farmers for crop damage when asked to consider their preferred management strategy package. We consider that the current management of hunting wild boar in China requires improvement, and we argue that China should adjust the current hunting management policy to take into account the benefits of wild boar population control and the economic development of the surrounding rural areas. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6367bc0de0194348a4db135afda045732023-01-22T04:39:34ZengElsevierGlobal Ecology and Conservation2351-98942023-01-0141e02353A quantitative analysis of public preferences for the wild boar management in urban and rural ChinaXue-Hong Zhou0Wei Zhang1Dong-Yan Tang2Zhen Miao3Qiang Wang4Douglas C. MacMillan5College of Wildlife and Protected Area, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province 150040, ChinaCollege of Wildlife and Protected Area, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province 150040, ChinaCollege of Wildlife and Protected Area, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province 150040, ChinaCollege of Wildlife and Protected Area, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province 150040, ChinaKey Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin Province 130102, China; Correspondence to: No. 138, Haping Road, Nangang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150081, China.Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NR, UKHuman-wildlife conflict is rapidly evolving in response to significant ecological, social, and economic changes affecting society globally. Developing objective and acceptable resolution strategies is challenging because of divergence in perceptions and understandings of human-wildlife conflict between urban and rural populations, and this disparity is increasing with rapid urbanization. In this study, we explore preferences for wild boar conflict management in China using a mixed methods approach of a survey, choice experiments, and interviews. We found that significant differences in the preferences of wild boar management exist between rural and urban residents. The majority of rural residents preferred hunting whereas most urban residents in cities remote from the conflict preferred non-hunting measures. However, we found that economic cost played an important role in influencing public preferences for management measures. The urban population had positive preferences for hunting if they were required to pay an environmental tax to compensate farmers for crop damage when asked to consider their preferred management strategy package. We consider that the current management of hunting wild boar in China requires improvement, and we argue that China should adjust the current hunting management policy to take into account the benefits of wild boar population control and the economic development of the surrounding rural areas.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989422003559Human-wildlife conflictSus scrofaManaged huntingPreferenceChoice experimentsChina |
| spellingShingle | Xue-Hong Zhou Wei Zhang Dong-Yan Tang Zhen Miao Qiang Wang Douglas C. MacMillan A quantitative analysis of public preferences for the wild boar management in urban and rural China Global Ecology and Conservation Human-wildlife conflict Sus scrofa Managed hunting Preference Choice experiments China |
| title | A quantitative analysis of public preferences for the wild boar management in urban and rural China |
| title_full | A quantitative analysis of public preferences for the wild boar management in urban and rural China |
| title_fullStr | A quantitative analysis of public preferences for the wild boar management in urban and rural China |
| title_full_unstemmed | A quantitative analysis of public preferences for the wild boar management in urban and rural China |
| title_short | A quantitative analysis of public preferences for the wild boar management in urban and rural China |
| title_sort | quantitative analysis of public preferences for the wild boar management in urban and rural china |
| topic | Human-wildlife conflict Sus scrofa Managed hunting Preference Choice experiments China |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989422003559 |
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