Wolves in agricultural landscapes: a political ecology of coexistence.

在城市居民和自然资源保护者中，越来越多的人反对致命的迁移，这有可能进一步边缘化农村人口，加剧保护冲突。通过混合方法的方法，这本博士将解决目前关于自然资源保护者和农民关于致命移除的价值观和观点的知识空白，并揭示在管理大型食肉动物种群时隐秘的权力不平衡问题。首先，通过一项基于全球网络的调查，这位博士将调查环保界反对致命移除的程度和反对的人。第二，通过案例研究的方法，本博士论文将探讨人类景观中农村农民的宇宙观，并探索小农与规模化农民之间以及农村与城市社区之间的权力关系。实地调查将在意大利托斯卡纳进行，因为该国缺乏研究，而当地背景提供了一个特别有趣的案例研究。数据收集将包括参与者观察和半结构化访谈，对象是当地农业社区和政策制定者(即地区行政当局)。调查结果将促进关于致命清除的包容性辩论，强调农村人与食肉动物的关系，阐明权力结构如何发挥作用，使某些行为者(例如，大型农民、环保主义者)的观点优先于其他行为者(例如，小农)，并强调定性数据和社会科学研究在保护方面的价值。

Increasing opposition towards lethal removal amongst urban people and conservationists risks to further marginalise rural people and exacerbate conservation conflicts. Through a mixed methods approach, this PhD will address current knowledge gaps on the values and views of conservationists and farmers on lethal removal, and expose cryptic power-imbalance issues in the management of large carnivore populations. First, through a global web-based survey, this PhD will investigate the extent to which, and by whom, lethal removal is opposed in the conservation community. Second, through a case study approach, this PhD will address the cosmology of rural farmers in anthropogenic landscapes, and explore power relations between smallholder and large-scale farmers and between rural and urban communities. Fieldwork will be conducted in Tuscany, Italy, because there is a dearth of studies in the country and the local context provides a particularly interesting case study. Data collection will include participant observation and semi-structured interviews, addressed to the local farming community and policymakers (i.e., regional administration). Findings will promote inclusive debates on lethal removal, highlight the relationship of rural people with carnivores, shed light on how power structures may work to privilege the views of certain actors (e.g., large-scale farmers, conservationists) over others (e.g., smallholders), and also emphasise the value of qualitative data and social science studies in conservation.