The Econo-techno-social Design of Invasive Animal Management: costs and benefits or beneficiaries and benefactors?
This paper examines invasive animal management institutions, using theories at the interstices of anthropology and geography, to question current approaches to management based on neoclassical and neoliberal economic rationales. I present an analysis of two feral pig management regimes
in Far North Queensland, Australia: (i) bounty systems of payment for feral pig control; and (ii) a community-based feral pig trapping program. I show how these management methods reshape important social and cultural processes through their overlapping technological and economic elements.
On the basis of this analysis, I propose a conceptual framework for invasive animal management planning that incorporates a beneficiary–benefactor analysis alongside cost–benefit analyses. I argue that ecological-economic theories of pest management may be usefully enhanced by
addressing the links between economic and social behaviours.
Keywords: Live-catch trapping; applied social science; bounty systems; economy as social practice; feral pigs; invasive animal management
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Australia
Publication date: 02 January 2014
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