Human-carnivore interaction in a context of socio-productive crisis: Assessing smallholder strategies for reducing predation in North-west Patagonia, Argentina
Mitigating carnivore-livestock interaction is essential to ensuring the persistence of carnivores in landscapes dominated by livestock activity. Our aim was to explore, in the context of social and productive crises triggered by environmental events, the values and attitudes adopted by smallholder...
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| author | Gaspero, Pablo Easdale, Marcos Horacio Pereira, Javier Adolfo Fernandez Arhex, Valeria Cristina Von Thungen, Julieta |
| author_browse | Easdale, Marcos Horacio Fernandez Arhex, Valeria Cristina Gaspero, Pablo Pereira, Javier Adolfo Von Thungen, Julieta |
| author_facet | Gaspero, Pablo Easdale, Marcos Horacio Pereira, Javier Adolfo Fernandez Arhex, Valeria Cristina Von Thungen, Julieta |
| author_sort | Gaspero, Pablo |
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| description | Mitigating carnivore-livestock interaction is essential to ensuring the persistence of carnivores in landscapes
dominated by livestock activity. Our aim was to explore, in the context of social and productive crises triggered
by environmental events, the values and attitudes adopted by smallholders in relation to wild carnivores. We
performed semi-structured interviews on issues related to the management decisions of the productive system.
To study the relative importance and associations among different factors, we constructed causal maps and used
centrality measures based on network analysis to identify the dominant discourse. Although carnivores were
perceived as one of the central problems of the map, retaliatory killing was not a central loss-prevention strategy.
Smallholders turned to semi-intensification of livestock practices to increase the efficiency of their production as
a response to different perceived problems. Lethal control techniques were weakly associated with a subsidized
control system, which the state implements to stimulate the hunting of carnivores. Whereas policies were oriented
to control native wild predators as the major source of disturbance, strategies of smallholders were based
on adaptive responses to multiple perceived problems. This work provides new insights to improve the monitoring
of mitigation measures to promote effective evidence-based policy. |
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| institution | Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA -Argentina) |
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| spelling | INTA20042018-03-09T15:21:31Z Human-carnivore interaction in a context of socio-productive crisis: Assessing smallholder strategies for reducing predation in North-west Patagonia, Argentina Gaspero, Pablo Easdale, Marcos Horacio Pereira, Javier Adolfo Fernandez Arhex, Valeria Cristina Von Thungen, Julieta Carnivora Depredadores Factores ambientales Interacción Biológica Ganadería Manejo del Ganado Explotación en Pequeña Escala Relaciones Predador Presa Agroecosistemas Agroecosystems Predator Prey Relations Livestock Management Animal Husbandry Biological Interaction Environmental Factors Predators Small Farms Argentina (nation) Pequeños Productores Smallholders Network Analysis Análisis de Redes Socio-ecological Systems Sistemas Socio-ecológicos Argentina Mitigating carnivore-livestock interaction is essential to ensuring the persistence of carnivores in landscapes dominated by livestock activity. Our aim was to explore, in the context of social and productive crises triggered by environmental events, the values and attitudes adopted by smallholders in relation to wild carnivores. We performed semi-structured interviews on issues related to the management decisions of the productive system. To study the relative importance and associations among different factors, we constructed causal maps and used centrality measures based on network analysis to identify the dominant discourse. Although carnivores were perceived as one of the central problems of the map, retaliatory killing was not a central loss-prevention strategy. Smallholders turned to semi-intensification of livestock practices to increase the efficiency of their production as a response to different perceived problems. Lethal control techniques were weakly associated with a subsidized control system, which the state implements to stimulate the hunting of carnivores. Whereas policies were oriented to control native wild predators as the major source of disturbance, strategies of smallholders were based on adaptive responses to multiple perceived problems. This work provides new insights to improve the monitoring of mitigation measures to promote effective evidence-based policy. Fil: Gaspero, Pablo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche; Argentina Fil: Pereira, Javier Adolfo. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia". División Mastozoología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Easdale, Marcos Horacio. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Fernandez Arhex, Valeria Cristina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Von Thungen, Julieta. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche; Argentina 2018-03-09T13:09:38Z 2018-03-09T13:09:38Z 2018 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/2004 0140-1963 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess application/pdf Argentina (nation) Journal of arid environments 150 : 92–98. (March 2018) |
| spellingShingle | Carnivora Depredadores Factores ambientales Interacción Biológica Ganadería Manejo del Ganado Explotación en Pequeña Escala Relaciones Predador Presa Agroecosistemas Agroecosystems Predator Prey Relations Livestock Management Animal Husbandry Biological Interaction Environmental Factors Predators Small Farms Argentina (nation) Pequeños Productores Smallholders Network Analysis Análisis de Redes Socio-ecological Systems Sistemas Socio-ecológicos Argentina Gaspero, Pablo Easdale, Marcos Horacio Pereira, Javier Adolfo Fernandez Arhex, Valeria Cristina Von Thungen, Julieta Human-carnivore interaction in a context of socio-productive crisis: Assessing smallholder strategies for reducing predation in North-west Patagonia, Argentina |
| title | Human-carnivore interaction in a context of socio-productive crisis: Assessing smallholder strategies for reducing predation in North-west Patagonia, Argentina |
| title_full | Human-carnivore interaction in a context of socio-productive crisis: Assessing smallholder strategies for reducing predation in North-west Patagonia, Argentina |
| title_fullStr | Human-carnivore interaction in a context of socio-productive crisis: Assessing smallholder strategies for reducing predation in North-west Patagonia, Argentina |
| title_full_unstemmed | Human-carnivore interaction in a context of socio-productive crisis: Assessing smallholder strategies for reducing predation in North-west Patagonia, Argentina |
| title_short | Human-carnivore interaction in a context of socio-productive crisis: Assessing smallholder strategies for reducing predation in North-west Patagonia, Argentina |
| title_sort | human carnivore interaction in a context of socio productive crisis assessing smallholder strategies for reducing predation in north west patagonia argentina |
| topic | Carnivora Depredadores Factores ambientales Interacción Biológica Ganadería Manejo del Ganado Explotación en Pequeña Escala Relaciones Predador Presa Agroecosistemas Agroecosystems Predator Prey Relations Livestock Management Animal Husbandry Biological Interaction Environmental Factors Predators Small Farms Argentina (nation) Pequeños Productores Smallholders Network Analysis Análisis de Redes Socio-ecological Systems Sistemas Socio-ecológicos Argentina |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/2004 |
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