Research questions
What are the current social paradigms underlying human-animal interactions and what possible alternative, non-dualistic, paradigms about human-animal interactions can be identified?
What is the current and possible future role of inter-species communication (between humans and animals) in human-animal management? And what role does trust play in this, between humans and between humans and animals?
What would an adaptive governance system that focuses on co-management of human-animal behavior look like? How to enable such institutional reform?
What values/benefits (intrinsic, instrumental and relational) do different groups in society attribute to wildlife and what level of conflicts with wildlife do these groups experience?
How are values and conflicts related to human and animal behavior, how are they distributed in space, and what are the inequalities associated with them?
How can the use of new governance arrangements and communication strategies guide human and animal behavior and reduce conflict?
Can new technological developments help actively guide human and wildlife behavior to reduce conflict?
What are the implications of the increasing use of technology in wildlife management on the experience of nature?
How do we monitor wildlife, wildlife damage and human-fauna conflicts? What variables are most important here? How do we ensure that monitoring methods are acceptable to all parties? Which methods are these? And how do we make monitoring data transparent and accessible?
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