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The Econo-techno-social Design of Invasive Animal Management: costs and benefits or beneficiaries and benefactors?
- Source :
- Australian Geographer; Mar2014, Vol. 45 Issue 1, p37-52, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- This paper examines invasive animal management institutions, using theories at the interstices of anthropology and geography, to question current approaches to management based on neoclassical and neoliberal economic rationales. I present an analysis of two feral pig management regimes in Far North Queensland, Australia: (i) bounty systems of payment for feral pig control; and (ii) a community-based feral pig trapping program. I show how these management methods reshape important social and cultural processes through their overlapping technological and economic elements. On the basis of this analysis, I propose a conceptual framework for invasive animal management planning that incorporates a beneficiary–benefactor analysis alongside cost–benefit analyses. I argue that ecological-economic theories of pest management may be usefully enhanced by addressing the links between economic and social behaviours. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00049182
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Australian Geographer
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 94503933
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2014.869295