Sammendrag
In 2012, the four countries hosting the Svalbard
population of pink-footed goose Anser brachyrhynchus
along its flyway launched an International Species
Management Plan for the population. One of the aims was
to reduce conflicts between geese and agriculture to an
acceptable level. Since 2006, Norway has offered subsidies
to farmers that provide refuge areas for geese on their land.
Weevaluate the mid-Norwegian goose management subsidy
scheme, with a view to its adjustment to prevailing
ecological and socio-economic parameters. The analysis
indicates that the legitimacy of the scheme is highly
dependent on transparency of knowledge management and
accountability of management scheme to the farming
community. Among farmers, as well as front-line officials,
outcomes of prioritisation processes within the scheme are
judged unfair when there is an evident mismatch between
payments and genuine damage. We suggest how the
scheme can be made more fair and responsive to
ecological changes, within a framework of adaptive
management.
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