Foraging ecology of black bears in urban environments: guidance for human‐bear conflict mitigation
Ecosphere, 2015 Urban environments offer wildlife novel anthropogenic resources that vary spatiotemporally at fine scales. Property damage, economic losses, human injury, or other human‐wildlife conflicts can occur when wildlife use these resources; however, few studies have examined urban wildlife resource selection at fine scales to guide conflict mitigation.
Lewis, D. L., author +6 more
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Human-Bear Conflicts in Massanutten Village: Achieving Success Requires Partnerships
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2018 Interactions between humans and black bears (Ursus americanus) in Virginia, USA, increase as bear populations recover from historically low levels and expand their range to seek food in human-modified environments. In 2002, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) changed its management of human–bear conflicts from translocating ...
Scott, Ally M +2 more
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Resolving Human‐Bear Conflict: A Global Survey of Countries, Experts, and Key Factors [PDF]
Conservation Letters, 2014 Abstract Human‐bear conflicts cause annoyance, financial losses, injuries, and even death to people. In poorer parts of the world, conflicts with bears can affect local economies. Retaliation against bears may threaten the future of small, isolated populations.
Özgün Emre Can +4 more
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Saving the Polar Bear, Saving the World:Can the Capabilities Approach do Justice to Humans, Animals and Ecosystems? [PDF]
, 2010 Martha Nussbaum has expanded the capabilities approach to defend positive duties of justice to individuals who fall below Rawls’ standard for fully cooperating members of society, including sentient nonhuman animals.
Alasdair Cochrane +26 more
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Germany: Continued 'elite precaution' alongside continued public opposition [PDF]
, 2000 Germany is the EU member state with the most difficult marketing situation (besides Austria) as regards genetically modified (gm) crops and food. At the same time, it shows the least administrative effort to respond to the reasons for this situation ...
Dreyer, Marion, Gill, Bernhard
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Understanding people's willingness to implement measures to manage human–bear conflict in Florida [PDF]
The Journal of Wildlife Management, 2015 ABSTRACTIn 2009, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) began surveying individuals who reported human–bear conflicts. The purpose of this survey is to assess whether individuals take actions recommended by the FWC to reduce or eliminate conflicts.
Elizabeth F. Pienaar +2 more
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A modest plea for a Chestertonian reading of The Monstrosity of Christ [PDF]
, 2017 Review of John Milbank and Slavoj Žižek, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic (Cambridge: MIT Press ...
Marika Rose
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Protecting Financial Markets: Lessons From the Subprime Mortgage Meltdown [PDF]
, 2007 Why did the recent subprime mortgage meltdown undermine financial market stability notwithstanding the protections provided by market norms and financial regulation?
Schwarcz, Steven L.
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Retrofitting Dumpsters with Bear Resistant Lids to Reduce Human-Bear Conflict in New Jersey [PDF]
Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference, 2010 Author(s): Makkay, Amanda M.; Burguess, Kelcey I.; Zellner, Andrew S.; Huffman, Jane E. | Abstract: Black bear populations are increasing throughout North America. When areas of black bear population expansion overlap regions of substantial human use, conflict can ensue. Human-bear conflicts can have negative economic, health/safety, and social impacts.
Makkay, Amanda M. +3 more
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Transnationalization of human rights norms and its impact on internally displaced Kurds [PDF]
, 2005 This paper addresses the less researched topic of internal displacement as a human rights issue and analyzes the extent that the transnationalization of human rights issues and the pressures from regional organizations affected the rights of ethnic ...
Celik, Ayse Betul, Çelik, Ayşe Betül
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