• 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 ...
    • Understanding and overcoming obstacles in adaptive management 

      Månsson, Johan; Eriksson, Louise; Hodgson, Isla; Elmberg, Johan; Bunnefeld, Nils; Hessel, Rebecca; Johansson, Maria; Liljebäck, Niklas; Nilsson, Lovisa; Olsson, Camilla; Pärt, Tomas; Sandström, Camilla; Tombre, Ingunn; Redpath, Steve M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Adaptive management (AM) is widely promoted to improve management of natural resources, yet its implementation is challenging. We show that obstacles to the im- plementation of AM are related not only to the AM process per ...