Rearticulating the myth of human-wildlife conflict

Conservation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 74-82

  Peterson, M Nils ^a   Birckhead, Jessie L ^a   Leong, Kirsten ^b   Peterson, Markus J ^c   Peterson, Tarla Rai ^c,d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal damage; Biodiversity conservation; Discourse; Environmental policy; Grounded theory; Human wildlife conflict; Rhetoric; Social construction; Thematic analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 78650564035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00099.x     Document Type: Review

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