Sammendrag
Summar
Hedmark University College (HUC) has in The Strategic Plan appointed Local
communities: economic development and innovation as one area of priority with
special emphasis on Economic development in forestry and wildlife management.
In accordancewith this strategic plan, the Department of Forestry and Wildlife
Management at HUC has since 1996 developed a research group focusing on moose
as an economic resource (Storaas et al. 1999). Here we propose a project that
follows up this research. We will study the economic optimal harvesting
strategies of two ungulate species from the Northern hemisphere: the moose
Alces alces and the red deer Cervus elaphus. An important part of the project
is the comparative perspective: we will compare moose management in
Fennoscandia and North America (USA and Canada), and red deer management in
Norway, Scotland and France. The comparative aspect here is interesting as the
objective of harvest (meat vs. trophies), harvesting rights (landowner vs.
hunter), theeconomic costs (traffic accidents, damages to forestry and
agriculture) as well as the magnitude of other, often conflicting management
goals related to ecological issues (issues of biodiversity, coexistence with
other herbivores and carnivores) differconsiderably between species and
nations. Earlier studies on harvest strategies have optimised either meat or
trophies (e.g., Sæther et al. 2001; Clutton-Brock et al. 2002), whereas other
indirect benefits of harvest to the local society (e.g., lodgingandthe use of
local service industries), as well as factors of economic cost and management
related to ecological issues have been ignored. Our aim is to apply
bio-economic modelling, by combining in-depth understanding of the population
ecological processes and sound population models, as well as knowledge of the
economic functions and values, to find ways of optimising the economic profit
(direct and indirect) of wild ungulates at different scales of interest (i.e.
landowner/hunter, local society and national community). We will include both
various economic costs and ecol
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Vitenskapelig sammendrag
Summar
Hedmark University College (HUC) has in The Strategic Plan appointed Local
communities: economic development and innovation as one area of priority with
special emphasis on Economic development in forestry and wildlife management.
In accordancewith this strategic plan, the Department of Forestry and Wildlife
Management at HUC has since 1996 developed a research group focusing on moose
as an economic resource (Storaas et al. 1999). Here we propose a project that
follows up this research. We will study the economic optimal harvesting
strategies of two ungulate species from the Northern hemisphere: the moose
Alces alces and the red deer Cervus elaphus. An important part of the project
is the comparative perspective: we will compare moose management in
Fennoscandia and North America (USA and Canada), and red deer management in
Norway, Scotland and France. The comparative aspect here is interesting as the
objective of harvest (meat vs. trophies), harvesting rights (landowner vs.
hunter), theeconomic costs (traffic accidents, damages to forestry and
agriculture) as well as the magnitude of other, often conflicting management
goals related to ecological issues (issues of biodiversity, coexistence with
other herbivores and carnivores) differconsiderably between species and
nations. Earlier studies on harvest strategies have optimised either meat or
trophies (e.g., Sæther et al. 2001; Clutton-Brock et al. 2002), whereas other
indirect benefits of harvest to the local society (e.g., lodgingandthe use of
local service industries), as well as factors of economic cost and management
related to ecological issues have been ignored. Our aim is to apply
bio-economic modelling, by combining in-depth understanding of the population
ecological processes and sound population models, as well as knowledge of the
economic functions and values, to find ways of optimising the economic profit
(direct and indirect) of wild ungulates at different scales of interest (i.e.
landowner/hunter, local society and national community). We will include both
various economic costs and ecol
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