Overview
Assess the successes and failures of the North American Wildlife Conservation Model
Draws on business, economic, environmental, and policy histories
Suggests a new policy, termed proxy hunting, that could ensure the achievement of scientific management harvest quotas
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explains how six policies collectively called the North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAWCM), put in place around the turn of the twentieth century, saved numerous iconic big game species from extinction. Rigid adherence to the NAWCM, however, especially its ban on the commercial sale of wild game meat, has allowed deer and some other species to become overabundant pests in areas where hunting pressure recently declined and habitat rebounded. Texas and South Africa have proven that scientific insight and market incentives can combine to prevent game overabundance and decrease the fragility and extend the range of iconic mammal game species. This book outlines how intermediate steps, like proxy hunting and other wildlife regulation reforms, could be used to lure more hunters into the field and move other states towards the Texas model incrementally, thereby minimizing risks to wildlife or human stakeholders.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The History and Evolution of the North American Wildlife Conservation Model
Authors: Robert E. Wright
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06163-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06162-2Published: 16 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06163-9Published: 14 June 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 130
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: History, general, History of Science, History of the Americas, Modern History