Wolves in agricultural landscapes: a political ecology of coexistence.

城市居民和自然资源保护主义者越来越多地反对致命清除，这有可能进一步边缘化农村居民，加剧保护冲突。通过混合方法的方法，这个博士学位将解决当前的知识差距的价值观和观点的保护主义者和农民对致命的去除，并暴露在大型食肉动物种群的管理神秘的权力不平衡问题。首先，通过一个全球性的基于网络的调查，这个博士将调查在何种程度上，以及由谁，致命的清除是反对在保护界。其次，通过案例研究的方法，这个博士将解决农村农民在人为景观的宇宙学，并探讨小农和大规模农民之间的权力关系，农村和城市社区之间。实地工作将在意大利的托斯卡纳进行，因为该国缺乏研究，当地的情况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决策者（即，区域行政）。调查结果将促进关于致命清除的包容性辩论，突出农村人口与食肉动物的关系，阐明权力结构如何使某些行为者的观点享有特权（例如，大规模的农民，自然资源保护主义者）超过其他人（例如，小农户），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.