Project description
Sustainable integration of wildlife and pastoral management
The recovery of large carnivores and herbivores has introduced new challenges for pastoralism, including wildlife damage, rising costs and social conflicts. Disagreements among stakeholders hinder efforts to resolve these issues. The EU-funded CoCo project will focus on the relationship between livestock husbandry practices and wildlife damage, aiming to integrate wildlife and pastoral management. It will assess stakeholder perceptions, explore governance structures, examine the potential of new technologies and conduct a cost-benefit analysis of various management scenarios. The project aims to gather quantitative data from at least 1 000 pastoralists, hunters and landowners, as well as qualitative insights from hundreds of stakeholders across 12 countries. The findings will contribute to a Roadmap for Coexistence.
Objective
The recovery of wildlife populations (large carnivores and large herbivores) has created many additional challenges for pastoralism, already under pressure from multiple socio-economic drivers. These challenges include damage (depredation), extra costs, and many social conflicts. Some of the major obstacles to addressing these challenges are conflicts between stakeholders and the contested nature of relevant knowledge. The CoCo project will address these obstacles by adopting a multi-disciplinary approaches with a strong social science representation and a Multi-Actor Approach with widespread stakeholder engagement that facilitates co-creation of knowledge with high legitimacy. The process will cover (a) the relationship between livestock husbandry practices and damage from wildlife, (b) ways to integrate wildlife management and pastoral management, (c) perceptions and values that different stakeholders have about the pastoralism-wildlife interface, (d) experience with different governance structures, (e) the potential of new and emerging technologies in both wildlife and pastoral management and monitoring, and (f) a cost benefit analysis of different scenarios for pastoral and wildlife management. The project will use methods as diverse as systematic reviews, field inspections, face-to-face interviews, focus groups, questionnaires and modelling. The project’s ambition is to collect original quantitative data from at least 1000 pastoralists, 1000 hunters and 1000 landowners and qualitative data from 100’s of stakeholders deployed in a comparative way across 12 countries. The insights stemming from the reviews, the analysis of new data, and the modelling will be integrated into a Roadmap for Coexistence that produces policy relevant recommendations for a better standardization, harmonization and integration of both pastoral and wildlife management systems. This will reduce conflicts and secure multi-functional landscapes for both pastoralists and wildlife.
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- social sciencessociologygovernance
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animalsanimal husbandry
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2418 Elverum
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Participants (19)
7034 Trondheim
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10559 Berlin
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15374 Muencheberg
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00145 Roma
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10124 Torino
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1000 Ljubljana
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546 40 THESSALONIKI
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530240 MIERCUREA CIUC
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50059 Zaragoza
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75007 Paris
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901 87 Umea
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2169 Salaspils
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31-120 KRAKOW
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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00161 Roma
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104 30 Stockholm
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
836 94 AS
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237 91 Bjarred
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532 39 Skara
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