• Communication Interventions and Fear of Brown Bears: Considerations of Content and Format 

      Johansson, Maria; Hallgren, Lars; Flykt, Anders; Støen, Ole-Gunnar; Thelin, Linda; Frank, Jens (Journal article, 2019)
      Communication interventions are commonly proposed as a way to address people’s fear and negative attitudes to build tolerance in shared landscapes between humans and large carnivores. Therefore, managing authorities ...
    • Controlled exposure reduces fear of brown bears 

      Johansson, Maria; Flykt, Anders; Frank, Jens; Støen, Ole-Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Fear of large carnivores such as brown bears may restrict people’s outdoor activities regardless of experts’ estimated risk of attack. This research study empirically examined three exposure interventions in the form of ...
    • Human behaviour can trigger large carnivore attacks in developed countries 

      Penteriani, Vincenzo; del Mar Delgado, Maria; Pinchera, Francesco; Naves, Javier; Fernández-Gil, Alberto; Kojola, Ilpo; Härkönen, Sauli; Norberg, Harri; Frank, Jens; Fedriani, José María; Sahlèn, Veroncia; Støen, Ole-Gunnar; Swenson, Jon; Wabakken, Petter; Pellegrini, Mario; Herrero, Stephen; López-Bao, José Vicente (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      The media and scientific literature are increasingly reporting an escalation of large carnivore attacks on humans in North America and Europe. Although rare compared to human fatalities by other wildlife, the media often ...
    • Large carnivore conservation and traditional pastoralism: A case study on bear–reindeer predation mitigation measures 

      Tallian, Aimee Grace; Støen, Ole-Gunnar; Immerzeel, Bart; Kindberg, Jonas; Ordiz, Andrés; Persson, Lars Thomas; Segerström, Peter; Skarin, Anna; Stokke, Rune; Tveraa, Torkild; Åhman, Birgitta; Frank, Jens (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      While wildlife and cultural preservation goals can be either complimentary orcounteractive, the goals of large carnivore conservation and traditional pastoralist lifestyles are often at odds. Livestock depredation can ...