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Individuals and Multilevel Management: A Study of the Perceived Adaptive Capacity of the Goose Management System among Farmers in Sweden

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Abstract Agricultural damage by geese is a growing problem in Europe and farmers play a key role in the emerging multilevel adaptive management system. This study explored how characteristics associated with the farmer and the farm, along with experience of damage, cognitive appraisals, emotions, and management beliefs were associated with the perceived adaptive capacity of the goose management system among farmers in the south of Sweden (n?=?1,067). Survey results revealed that owning a larger farm, a farm closer to water or formally protected areas, along with cultivating cereal and root crops, were associated with geese evoking stronger negative emotions. Further, more previous experience of damage was related to stronger negative emotions and lower levels of perceived adaptive capacity. However, even more important determinants of perceived adaptive capacity were cognitive appraisals, emotions, and management beliefs. Bridging the ties between individual farmers and the system is important for improved multilevel management.

Cognitive appraisalsemotionsfarmersmanagement beliefsperceived adaptive capacitywildlife damage

Eriksson Louise、Johansson Maria、M?nsson Johan、Redpath Steve M.、Sandstr?m Camilla、Elmberg Johan

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Department of Geography, Ume? University

Environmental Psychology, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University

Department of Ecology, Grims? Wildlife Research Station, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Riddarhyttan, Sweden

School of Biological Sciences, Zoology Building, University of Aberdeen

Department of Political Science, Ume? University

Department of Environmental Science and Bioscience, Kristianstad University

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2022

Society and Natural Resources

Society and Natural Resources

ISSN:0894-1920
年,卷(期):2022.35(1/3)
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