Modelling conflicting objectives in the management of a mobile ecological resource: Red deer in the Scottish Highlands

Ecological Economics

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 881-892

  Smart, James C R ^a   White, Piran C L ^a   Termansen, Mette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culling; Financial incentives; Optimal management; Structured population; Woodland regeneration

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CULLING; DEER; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HUNTING; INCENTIVE; MIGRATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PROPERTY RIGHTS; REGENERATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UPLAND REGION; WOODLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 38149044140     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.05.012     Document Type: Article

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