FIW 2114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Resource Management
25 Aug 2016
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Human dimensions guest speaker (steve mcmullin) The challenge of understanding and clarifying stakeholder"s perspective on resource management purposes and issues, and systematically incorporating suck insight into decision making. People who stand to benefit from or be negatively affected by management decisions or actions. Including those who believe they will be affected. And those who don"t know they will be affected. Understand forces affecting stakeholder participation in fish and wildlife-related activities. Traditionally focused on participation in hunting and fishing. Motivation, specialization, what constitutes a quality experience . Social science methods to gauge public opinion. Weighting disparate stakeholder input in management decisions. Hd info should not be used to make resource management a process of counting votes. Not a substitute for professional judgment and management in the public interest. Need to understand your values and those of the stakeholders. Natural resource management is the manipulation of organismal populations, their habitats, and people to achieve specific human objectives.
