Summary: Human Dimensions Of Wildlife | Jacobs

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• 2 Perceptions of wildlife: human dimensions of wildlife

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• The theoretical framework developed for human dimensions in wildlife is?

  The cognitive framework

• What is a feature of human cognitions?

  They exist at different levels of abstraction

• relationship to wildlife is important for the sectors

  Tourism, recreation, wildlife management and policy makers(management goals) and for scientific reasons. 

• 3 Wildlife value orientations

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• original two types of wildlife value orientations?

  1. wildlife benefits/existance      2.Wildlife rights/use 

• 2predominant orientations (modern):

  1.Dominant(maternalism)- wildlife used for human benefit and human have priotity

  and 2. Mutualism - wildlife equal rights and deserve care. Feel like part of ecosystem together with wildlife and want to live in harmony

• Research on wildlife predisposition: higher income and edcuation

  more mutalism. Modernisation and cultural ideologies are providing the shift 

• What are wildlife value orientations?

  Patterns of basic belief that give meaning to fundamental values in the wildlife domain 

• 4 theoretical framework; cognitive hierachy

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• What exerts influence on behavioral intentions?

  context specific cognitions i.e norms and attiudes 

• 4.1 value orientations, attitudes, norms

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• Attitudes are more/less direct than value orientations?

  more. They more directly influence behavoir. 

• Difference between social and personal norms?

  Social are held by a community, so shared standards. While personal norms are induvidual expectations of behavior learned through experience and interaction.