Data from: Finding politically feasible conservation policies: the case of wildlife trafficking
| Main Authors: | Haas, Timothy C., Ferreira, Sam M. |
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| Format: | info dataset Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2017
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/5010694 |
Daftar Isi:
- Conservation management is of increasing importance in ecology as most ecosystems nowadays are essentially managed ones. Conservation managers work within a political-ecological system when they develop and attempt to implement a conservation plan that is designed to meet particular conservation goals. In this article, we develop a decision support tool that can identify a conservation policy for a managed wildlife population that is both sustainable and politically feasible. Part of our tool consists of a simulation model composed of interacting influence diagrams. We build, fit, and use our tool on the case of rhino horn trafficking between South Africa and Asia. Using these diagrams, we show how a rhino poacher's belief system can be modified by such a policy and locate it in a perceived risks-benefits space before and after policy implementation. We statistically fit our model to observations on group actions and rhino abundance. We then use this fitted model to compute a politically feasible conservation policy.
- polecolText file of all political actions, rhino abundance, and Kruger National Park vegetation observations used to fit the models described in the paper. Data sets are listed sequentially. Political actions data format: Document Archive Number, Date of news story, Source, Number of actors, Actors, Number of subjects, Subjects, Action, Number of countries, Countries, Number of regions, Regions, Date of action.