The challenges of integrative approaches in wildlife management : caribou management in insular Newfoundland ...

• Main Author: Decker, Stephen Edmund
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2018
• Subjects: Newfoundland; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0373202; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0373202

The field of wildlife management is evolving and adopting Integrated Resource Management (IRM) approaches. As part of this evolution, contemporary wildlife management is informed by a greater diversity of stakeholders and other land-use issues than in the past and also acknowledges the place of individual wildlife species in the larger ecosystem. Though well-recorded from a theoretical perspective, the extent to which this evolution is manifested in an applied wildlife management setting has received little attention in the literature. This dissertation explores and further elucidates the connection between the overarching field of IRM and the current Human Dimensions-focused stage in the evolution of the North American Model of Wildlife Management. Through a case study of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus-caribou) management on the island of Newfoundland, Canada, this research examines the extent to which the purported trends toward more IRM approaches are manifest on the ground Stakeholder interviews and ...