Test 1 Flashcards

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Human Dimension of Wildlife Management?

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How people value wildlife, how they want wildlife managed and how they affect or are affected by wildlife and wildlife management

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Events that lead to wildlife protection

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  • fur trade bye beaver
  • bison to the brink of extinction
  • extibction of passenger pigeon
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HDW lead to 2 major developments:

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  • national parks

- north american model of wildlife conservation

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After the 2nd world war

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  • interest in outdoor recreation and nature rapidly accelerated
  • expansion of recreational hunting lead to the restoration of wildlife species
  • wildlife management grew as a discipline
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5
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Human Dimension issue: urbanization

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  • human-wildlife conflict
  • ecotourism
  • illegal harvest and trade
  • co-management
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Human dimension issue: multiple voices being legitimized

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  • experts to transactional planning

- active participation

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Human dimensions issue: climate change

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  • invasive species
  • wildfire
  • pest infestations
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Human dimensions issue: water and energy development

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  • consumption of more land

- need to mitigate

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3 trends to likely impact current and future outdoor participation rates:

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  • population growth and urbanization
  • changing racial and ethnic composition
  • constraints on participation
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Population growth and urbanization

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  • housing development must compete with other land uses ie) agriculture
  • urbanization and loss of habitat have affected places to recreate
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Social and demographic trends

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  • limited supply of land requires working with stakeholders
  • newcomers and seasonal homeowners becoming more involved in issues with wildlife management and preservation
  • most migration is to urban areas opportunities to engage in wildlife related activities are often limited
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Constraints to outdoor participation

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  • time
  • cost
  • work
  • access
  • health
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Minority groups and outdoor recreation

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  • regard outdoor recreation as culturally irrelevant
  • more likely to have lower education and lower income
  • may have experienced prejudice and discrimination
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Global patterns of similarities in human values towards wildlife important implementations

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  • management of migratory species
  • cross cultural collaboration increasingly necessary in combating global environmental problems
  • most difficult issues are where basic values conflict
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15
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Biophilia

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  • a strong biologically fashioned human connection to animals
  • beyond doubt that our gentic makeup has been influenced by our interactions with nature
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16
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Biophobia

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  • Where people are presented with images of threatening stimuli such as snakes and spiders
  • wildlife automatically draws human attention because of the evolutionary advantage posed by signaling safety or danger
17
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Anthropomorphism

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The tendency to project human characteristics on nonhuman animals

18
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Totenism

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Where one’s existence is closely entwined with the natural environment- found in virtually all hunter gatherer societies
-belief they are descended from or related to a specific clan ie) bear clan

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Values

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Consider behavioral theories that suggest that behavior is underlain by belief and affective responses (feeling states- good, bad, scary)
-values form slowly over many experiences and change very little over time

20
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Ideology

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Considered broader and more inclusive concept that values -equated with worldview
-includes beliefs about stereotypes, principles of resource allocation, role prescriptions

21
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Value orientations

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Captures the personality of a cultural group

22
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Shift in wildlife orientation

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From domination to mutalism is occurring in NA, in part as a result of modernization