Towards a more Adaptive Swedish Wild Boar Management
Towards a more Adaptive Swedish Wild Boar Management System with Enhanced Collective Action Capability: Lessons from ASF outbreaks in Sweden and abroad.
Governance systems must be adaptive and inspire collective action to respond to changing needs, handle unforeseen crises, and learn from past experiences to prevent future crises. In this project, we analyse opportunities and obstacles for developing management systems with increased capacity for collective action to prevent and manage unforeseen crises. We do this by analysing and drawing lessons from the management of outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF) in Sweden in 2023 and the management of previous outbreaks abroad.
The overall aim of the project is to highlight how the wild boar management system can develop the capacity to prevent, detect, and quickly take measures to change ecological needs such as ASF outbreaks, by enabling trust-building, collaboration and coordination between individuals, local and regional actors/ authorities, and the state.
Against this background, the project aims to answer the following research questions:
- What lessons can we learn from the ASF outbreak in Sweden in 2023 and previous outbreaks abroad?
- How does the current institutional system meet demands for adaptability and inspiration for collective action?
- What is needed to create a more adaptive Swedish wild boar management system with increased capacity for collective action to prevent and manage unexpected crises such as ASF outbreaks?
We shed light on these questions by combining document analysis, interviews, surveys and public goods games with decision-makers and citizens. As we investigate and test how well different types of measures work, our results will contribute valuable knowledge that can be used to develop new guidelines for management systems to deal with crises in general and management of ASF outbreaks in particular.
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