We are starting a project studying public and local perception of a large predator in rural areas, with some human-wildlife conflict involved.
We want to know if this perception has changed over years of science extension and talks with locals, comparing perceptions of people living in areas where we have already been studying this species with other areas where we have not been yet, to see whether our work has been useful in the end.
Although I understand that any research on this issue is very unique by itself (in terms of study species, current conservation status or country, to name a few), I would appreciate any advice on literature, statistical analyses and survey examples or models, to start shaping it.
Thank you very much in advance!
Diego
Hi, check this paper Article Relating to the wild: Key actors’ values and concerns about ...
and other papers from the same author regarding people perceptions on Iberian Lynx in portuguese rural areas.
I had the opportunity to work on something like that with bats. Closed questions will not lead you to see the reality behind a perception, which is very complex. They must be linked to the local people, have key informants. An ethnographic work, from ethnoedology and ethno-conservation.
Rui Morgado Thank you very much for your contribution! I will take a look into it and if I have any doubt, I will ask you again!!
DGG
María Cecilia Castilla , Thanks for your answer! Of course, I guess that getting to know what lies behind people´s feelings towards animals (conflicts, history, socio-economics, cultural background...) is key when starting survey research! Would you mind sharing any paper you used as a "guide"? Any statistical framework that you would recommend?
Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman
Thanks for your answer!
Could you recommend any paper addressing biases in survey methods and/or solving them with any statistical tool?
Thank you very much!
I used this framework to study a conflict over wild boar management:
White, R. M., Fischer, A., Marshall, K., Travis, J. M. J., Webb, T. J., di Falco, S., … van der Wal, R. (2009). Developing an integrated conceptual framework to understand biodiversity conflicts. Land Use Policy, 26(2), 242–253. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.03.005
This is my paper
Article Wildlife Management Conflicts in Rural Communities: A Case-S...
And another paper on the issue of wolves in Sweden is this one
Sjölander-Lindqvist, A. (2009). Social-Natural Landscape Reorganised: Swedish Forest-edge Farmers and Wolf Recovery. Conservation & Society, 7(2), 130–140. doi:10.4103/0972-4923.58644
Joanna Storie Thank you very much for your contribution! I will take a look into those papers!!
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