Quantifying the checks and balances of collaborative governance systems for adaptive carnivore management
1. Recovering or threatened carnivore populations are often harvested to minimise their impact on human activities, such as livestock farming or game hunting. Increasingly, harvest quota decisions involve a set of scientific, administrative and political institutions operating at national and sub-na...
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1. Recovering or threatened carnivore populations are often harvested to minimise their impact on human activities, such as livestock farming or game hunting. Increasingly, harvest quota decisions involve a set of scientific, administrative and political institutions operating at national and sub-national levels whose interactions and collective decision-making aim to increase the legitimacy of management and ensure population targets are met. In practice, however, assessments of how quota decisions change between these different actors and what consequences these changes have on population trends are rare. 2. We combine a state-space population modelling approach with an analysis of quota decisions taken at both regional and national levels between 2007 and 2018 to build a set of decision-making models that together predict annual harvest quota values for Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in Norway. 3. We reveal a tendency for administrative decision-makers to compensate for consistent quota increases by political actors, particularly when the lynx population size estimate is above the regional target. Using population forecasts based on the ensemble of decision-making models, we show that such buffering of political biases ensures lynx population size remains close to regional and national targets in the long term. 4. Our results go beyond the usual qualitative assessment of collaborative governance systems for carnivore management, revealing a system of checks and balances that, in the case of lynx in Norway, ensures both multi-stakeholder participation and sustainable harvest quotas. Nevertheless, we highlight important inter-regional differences in decision-making and population forecasts, the socio-ecological drivers of which need to be better understood to prevent future population declines. 5. Synthesis and applications. Our work analyses the sequence of decisions leading to yearly quotas for lynx harvest in Norway, highlighting the collaborative and structural processes that together shape harvest ... |
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Quantifying the checks and balances of collaborative governance systems for adaptive carnivore management |
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ftunivstirling:oai:dspace.stir.ac.uk:1893/33898 2023-05-15T18:50:26+02:00 Quantifying the checks and balances of collaborative governance systems for adaptive carnivore management Cusack, Jeremy J Nilsen, Erlend B Israelsen, Markus F Andrén, Henrik Grainger, Matthew Linnell, John D C Odden, John Bunnefeld, Nils Norges Forskningsråd Miljødirektoratet European Commission (Horizon 2020) Universidad Mayor Norwegian Institute for Nature Research Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Biological and Environmental Sciences orcid:0000-0003-3004-1586 orcid:0000-0002-5119-8331 orcid:0000-0002-5616-2426 orcid:0000-0001-8426-6495 orcid:0000-0002-8370-5633 orcid:0000-0002-6275-8648 orcid:0000-0002-1349-4463 2022-04 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33898 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14113 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/33898/1/Cusack-etal-JAE-2022.pdf en eng Wiley Cusack JJ, Nilsen EB, Israelsen MF, Andrén H, Grainger M, Linnell JDC, Odden J & Bunnefeld N (2022) Quantifying the checks and balances of collaborative governance systems for adaptive carnivore management. Journal of Applied Ecology, 59 (4), pp. 1038-1049. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14113 ConFooBio 679651 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33898 doi:10.1111/1365-2664.14113 WOS:000778007900013 2-s2.0-85123790050 1790634 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/33898/1/Cusack-etal-JAE-2022.pdf © 2022 The Authors. Journal of Applied Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY collaborative decision-making harvest lynx Norway population forecast quota stakeholder Journal Article VoR - Version of Record 2022 ftunivstirling https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14113 2022-06-13T18:42:40Z 1. Recovering or threatened carnivore populations are often harvested to minimise their impact on human activities, such as livestock farming or game hunting. Increasingly, harvest quota decisions involve a set of scientific, administrative and political institutions operating at national and sub-national levels whose interactions and collective decision-making aim to increase the legitimacy of management and ensure population targets are met. In practice, however, assessments of how quota decisions change between these different actors and what consequences these changes have on population trends are rare. 2. We combine a state-space population modelling approach with an analysis of quota decisions taken at both regional and national levels between 2007 and 2018 to build a set of decision-making models that together predict annual harvest quota values for Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in Norway. 3. We reveal a tendency for administrative decision-makers to compensate for consistent quota increases by political actors, particularly when the lynx population size estimate is above the regional target. Using population forecasts based on the ensemble of decision-making models, we show that such buffering of political biases ensures lynx population size remains close to regional and national targets in the long term. 4. Our results go beyond the usual qualitative assessment of collaborative governance systems for carnivore management, revealing a system of checks and balances that, in the case of lynx in Norway, ensures both multi-stakeholder participation and sustainable harvest quotas. Nevertheless, we highlight important inter-regional differences in decision-making and population forecasts, the socio-ecological drivers of which need to be better understood to prevent future population declines. 5. Synthesis and applications. Our work analyses the sequence of decisions leading to yearly quotas for lynx harvest in Norway, highlighting the collaborative and structural processes that together shape harvest ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Lynx Lynx lynx lynx University of Stirling: Stirling Digital Research Repository Norway Journal of Applied Ecology 59 4 1038 1049 |