Challenges of managing a European brown bear population; lessons from Sweden, 1943–2013
Adaptive management’, which has been defined as the repeated iteration between management action, scientific assessment and revised management action, leading to a strengthened foundation for management, is required by Swedish law to be incorporated into the management of large carnivores. We have e...
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ftninstnf:oai:brage.nina.no:11250/2443696 2023-05-15T18:42:13+02:00 Challenges of managing a European brown bear population; lessons from Sweden, 1943–2013 Swenson, Jon Schneider, Michael Zedrosser, Andreas Söderberg, Arne Franzén, Robert Kindberg, Jonas Sweden, Sverige 2017 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2443696 https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00251 eng eng Andre: Norwegian Environmental Agency Andre: Austrian Science Fund Andre: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Andre: Swedish Association for Hunting and Wildlife Management Norges forskningsråd: xxxxxx urn:issn:0909-6396 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2443696 https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00251 cristin:1465540 Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no CC-BY wlb.00251 Wildlife Biology VDP::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480 VDP::Zoology and botany: 480 Journal article Peer reviewed 2017 ftninstnf https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00251 2021-12-23T07:16:54Z Adaptive management’, which has been defined as the repeated iteration between management action, scientific assessment and revised management action, leading to a strengthened foundation for management, is required by Swedish law to be incorporated into the management of large carnivores. We have evaluated whether the size and/or trend of the brown bear Ursus arctos population in Sweden corresponded to management-decided national objectives during five management regimes during the past 70 years (1943–2013). We found that the objective had been met in only one period, when it had been worded very vaguely. During the last period studied (2008–2013), when management was carried out on the county level and adaptive management was required by the Swedish Government, four of six counties met their trend objectives, but only one of six met the population objectives, although one was close to meeting them. Sociological studies have documented major problems in communication among the members of the county delegations responsible for the management of large carnivores. As adaptive management apparently never has been implemented successfully in brown bear management in Sweden, we recommend that the Delegations for Game Management be mandated to integrate up-to-date, scientifically documented biological information into their decisions. This is not done consistently today. Researchers should be involved in the process to inform about relevant, available information, design testable scientific ‘experiments’ based on the predicted results of management decisions, and evaluate the results in relation to the predictions, perhaps as members of a ‘boundary organization’ consisting of researchers, managers and stakeholders. This would require a new management paradigm, because many in Sweden seem to be skeptical to the idea of involving researchers in management. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ursus arctos Norwegian Institute for Nature Research: Brage NINA Wildlife Biology 2017 1 1 13 |
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Adaptive management’, which has been defined as the repeated iteration between management action, scientific assessment and revised management action, leading to a strengthened foundation for management, is required by Swedish law to be incorporated into the management of large carnivores. We have evaluated whether the size and/or trend of the brown bear Ursus arctos population in Sweden corresponded to management-decided national objectives during five management regimes during the past 70 years (1943–2013). We found that the objective had been met in only one period, when it had been worded very vaguely. During the last period studied (2008–2013), when management was carried out on the county level and adaptive management was required by the Swedish Government, four of six counties met their trend objectives, but only one of six met the population objectives, although one was close to meeting them. Sociological studies have documented major problems in communication among the members of the county delegations responsible for the management of large carnivores. As adaptive management apparently never has been implemented successfully in brown bear management in Sweden, we recommend that the Delegations for Game Management be mandated to integrate up-to-date, scientifically documented biological information into their decisions. This is not done consistently today. Researchers should be involved in the process to inform about relevant, available information, design testable scientific ‘experiments’ based on the predicted results of management decisions, and evaluate the results in relation to the predictions, perhaps as members of a ‘boundary organization’ consisting of researchers, managers and stakeholders. This would require a new management paradigm, because many in Sweden seem to be skeptical to the idea of involving researchers in management. |
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Challenges of managing a European brown bear population; lessons from Sweden, 1943–2013 |
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Challenges of managing a European brown bear population; lessons from Sweden, 1943–2013 |
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Andre: Norwegian Environmental Agency Andre: Austrian Science Fund Andre: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Andre: Swedish Association for Hunting and Wildlife Management Norges forskningsråd: xxxxxx urn:issn:0909-6396 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2443696 https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00251 cristin:1465540 |
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