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Explaining people's perceptions of invasive alien species: A conceptual framework.

  • Shackleton RT School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L3G1, Canada; Institute of Geography and Sustainability, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland; Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, 7602, South Africa. Electronic address: rtshackleton@gmail.com.
  • Richardson DM Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, 7602, South Africa.
  • Shackleton CM Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa.
  • Bennett B Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia; Department of Historical Studies, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 523, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa.
  • Crowley SL Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, United Kingdom.
  • Dehnen-Schmutz K Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom.
  • Estévez RA Centre of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, O'Higgins 340, Santiago, Chile.
  • Fischer A Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, Scotland, United Kingdom.
  • Kueffer C Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Kull CA Institute of Geography and Sustainability, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Marchante E Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456, Coimbra, Portugal.
  • Novoa A Institute of Botany, Department of Invasion Ecology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic.
  • Potgieter LJ Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, 7602, South Africa.
  • Vaas J Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
  • Vaz AS Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (InBIO-CIBIO), University of Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, PT4485-661, Vairão, Portugal.
  • Larson BMH School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L3G1, Canada; Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, 7602, South Africa.
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  • 2018-08-06
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  • Journal of environmental management. - 2019
Attitudes
Beliefs
Biological invasions
Conceptual model
Knowledge
Social
Stakeholder
Synthesis
Ecosystem
Humans
Introduced Species
Perception
English Human perceptions of nature and the environment are increasingly being recognised as important for environmental management and conservation. Understanding people's perceptions is crucial for understanding behaviour and developing effective management strategies to maintain, preserve and improve biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. As an interdisciplinary team, we produced a synthesis of the key factors that influence people's perceptions of invasive alien species, and ordered them in a conceptual framework. In a context of considerable complexity and variation across time and space, we identified six broad-scale dimensions: (1) attributes of the individual perceiving the invasive alien species; (2) characteristics of the invasive alien species itself; (3) effects of the invasion (including negative and positive impacts, i.e. benefits and costs); (4) socio-cultural context; (5) landscape context; and (6) institutional and policy context. A number of underlying and facilitating aspects for each of these six overarching dimensions are also identified and discussed. Synthesising and understanding the main factors that influence people's perceptions is useful to guide future research, to facilitate dialogue and negotiation between actors, and to aid management and policy formulation and governance of invasive alien species. This can help to circumvent and mitigate conflicts, support prioritisation plans, improve stakeholder engagement platforms, and implement control measures.
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