A Landscape Analysis of Cougar Distribution and Abundance in Montana, USA
In: Environmental management: an international journal for decision makers, scientists, and environmental auditors, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 317-323
ISSN: 1432-1009
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In: Environmental management: an international journal for decision makers, scientists, and environmental auditors, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 317-323
ISSN: 1432-1009
In: Society and natural resources, Band 18, Heft 5, S. 487-491
ISSN: 1521-0723
In: Society and natural resources, Band 28, Heft 6, S. 657-669
ISSN: 1521-0723
In: Risk analysis: an international journal, Band 33, Heft 8, S. 1489-1499
ISSN: 1539-6924
In: Risk analysis: an international journal, Band 33, Heft 8, S. 1489-1499
ISSN: 1539-6924
An important requisite for improving risk communication practice related to contentious environmental issues is having a better theoretical understanding of how risk perceptions function in real‐world social systems. Our study applied Scherer and Cho's social network contagion theory of risk perception (SNCTRP) to cormorant management (a contentious environmental management issue) in the Great Lakes Basin to: (1) assess contagion effects on cormorant‐related risk perceptions and individual factors believed to influence those perceptions and (2) explore the extent of social contagion in a full network (consisting of interactions between and among experts and laypeople) and three "isolated" models separating different types of interactions from the full network (i.e., expert‐to‐expert, layperson‐to‐layperson, and expert‐to‐layperson). We conducted interviews and administered questionnaires with experts (e.g., natural resource professionals) and laypeople (e.g., recreational and commercial anglers, business owners, bird enthusiasts) engaged in cormorant management in northern Lake Huron (n = 115). Our findings generally support the SNCTRP; however, the scope and scale of social contagion varied considerably based on the variables (e.g., individual risk perception factors), actors (i.e., experts or laypeople), and interactions of interest. Contagion effects were identified more frequently, and were stronger, in the models containing interactions between experts and laypeople than in those models containing only interactions among experts or laypeople.
In: Society and natural resources, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 205-220
ISSN: 1521-0723