Integrated Deer Management
Project Status: Completed
Type of Project: Networking Award
Principal Investigator: Dr Justin Irvine, Macaulay
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Objectives
Development of a framework for collaborative land management to facilitate the sustainability of rural economies, using integrated deer management as a case study.
Specific objectives:
1. Bring together an interdisciplinary team of leading socio-economists
and environmental scientists to identify social, economic and environmental
factors and their interactions that underlie deer management and its
role in rural economies.
2. Identify national and regional differences in social, economic and
environmental conditions that are responsible for the contrasting approaches
to deer management and highlight the implications these have for sustainable
rural economies.
3. Select suitable case study areas in England, Wales and Scotland to
represent regional variation in rural socio-economic and deer management
systems.
4. Identify the principal stakeholder and interest groups that would
actively participate in the main research project
5. Assemble a proposal to be submitted to RELU, in collaboration with
the identified stakeholders, which would facilitate the development
of collaborative frameworks for the sustainable management in rural
areas.