scholarly journals The Significance of Social Perceptions in Implementing Successful Feral Cat Management Strategies: A Global Review

Animals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke P. Deak ◽  
Bertram Ostendorf ◽  
David A. Taggart ◽  
David E. Peacock ◽  
Douglas K. Bardsley
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Feral Cat ◽  
Feral Cats ◽  
Social License ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Education And Awareness

This review examines the social aspects that influence feral cat management. In particular, it examines definitions and perceptions of feral cats as a species in different countries and across cultures. Using case studies from around the world, we investigate the factors that can influence public perceptions and social acceptance of feral cats and management methods. The review then highlights the importance of social factors in management and suggests the best approach to use in the future to ease the process of gaining a social license for management campaigns. Implications of the influence of education and awareness on public perception and acceptance are further explained, and are suggested to be an essential tool in successfully engaging the community about management in the future.

Videographic evidence of endangered species depredation by feral cat.

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Judge ◽  
Jill S Lippert ◽  
Kathleen Misajon ◽  
Darcy Hu ◽  
Steven C Hess
Keyword(s):  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Feral Cat ◽  
Feral Cats ◽  
Video Cameras ◽  
Infrared Video ◽  
Available Technology ◽  
Visual Confirmation ◽  
Breeding Seasons

Feral cats (Felis catus) have long been implicated as nest predators of endangered ‘Ua‘u (Hawaiian Petrel; Pterodroma sandwichensis) on Hawai‘i Island, but until recently, visual confirmation has been limited by available technology. ‘Ua‘u nest out of view, deep inside small cavities, on alpine lava flows. During the breeding seasons of 2007 and 2008, we monitored known burrows within Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. Digital infrared video cameras assisted in determining the breeding behaviour and nesting success at the most isolated of burrows. With 7 cameras, we collected a total of 819 videos and 89 still photographs of adult and nestling ‘Ua‘u at 14 burrows. Videos also confirmed the presence of rats (Rattus spp.) at 2 burrows, ‘Ôma‘o (Myadestes obscurus) at 8 burrows, and feral cats at 6 burrows. A sequence of videos showed a feral cat taking a downy ‘Ua‘u chick from its burrow, representing the first direct evidence of ‘Ua‘u depredation by feral cat in Hawai‘i. This technique provides greater understanding of feral cat behaviour in ‘Ua’u colonies, which may assist in the development of more targeted management strategies to reduce nest predation on endangered insular bird species.

scholarly journals Walk the Talk—A Sustainability Management System for Social Acceptance in Nordic Mining

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3508
Author(s):  
Helena Ranängen ◽  
Åsa Lindman
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Sustainability Management ◽  
Management Models ◽  
Planning Step ◽  
Social License ◽  
The Social

The mining industry has experienced increased stakeholder pressure over the last decades, and the legitimacy of the mining industry and its place in society is sometimes questioned. On the other hand, high corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance can lead to an increased social acceptance, which in the end may give the mining company the social license to operate. This article focuses on stakeholder management within management system thinking in order to enhance the social acceptance for mining. The purpose is to describe a mining company’s existing stakeholder management practice and identify areas for improvement using established stakeholder management models to achieve an efficient and effective stakeholder management practice. The purpose is also to describe how conceptual sustainability management system (SMS) frameworks can be usefully applied and, more specifically, whether and how stakeholder management models and the concept of materiality analysis are useful for the planning step in an SMS for social acceptance. The findings show that the used SMS framework fits well in this context, and that a materiality analysis can beneficially be used for the ‘systemization of stakeholder demands’ in the planning step of an SMS.

scholarly journals A Natural Language Processing Approach to Social License Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8441
Author(s):  
Robert G. Boutilier ◽  
Kyle Bahr
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Complex Projects ◽  
Social License ◽  
The Social ◽  
Project Life

Dealing with the social and political impacts of large complex projects requires monitoring and responding to concerns from an ever-evolving network of stakeholders. This paper describes the use of text analysis algorithms to identify stakeholders’ concerns across the project life cycle. The social license (SL) concept has been used to monitor the level of social acceptance of a project. That acceptance can be assessed from the texts produced by stakeholders on sources ranging from social media to personal interviews. The same texts also contain information on the substance of stakeholders’ concerns. Until recently, extracting that information necessitated manual coding by humans, which is a method that takes too long to be useful in time-sensitive projects. Using natural language processing algorithms, we designed a program that assesses the SL level and identifies stakeholders’ concerns in a few hours. To validate the program, we compared it to human coding of interview texts from a Bolivian mining project from 2009 to 2018. The program’s estimation of the annual average SL was significantly correlated with rating scale measures. The topics of concern identified by the program matched the most mentioned categories defined by human coders and identified the same temporal trends.

Resistance to Risky Technology: When Are Our Environmental Fears Justified?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul B. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Social Amplification Of Risk ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Amplification

Paul B. Thompson argues that defenders and critics of novel technologies share the same fundamental assumption that technological innovation is the key source of greater efficiency in production. Although they question how social institutions incentivize innovation and distribute benefits, innovation as such is always seen as a good thing -- except when it comes to certain emerging technologies: agricultural biotechnologies, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology. Then public perception is skeptical, negative, even outraged. Thompson turns to risk assessment to figure out what makes some technologies more disturbing than others. He examines the “social amplification of risk,” the cognitive and social phenomena that distort perception and cause people to see a situation as more risky that it is, other times as less risky. Thompson identifies two different approaches to the risk amplification: purification and hybridization. The former excludes irrational social fears, outrage, and distrust from a risk assessment; the latter takes these motivating influences seriously and incorporates them into a risk assessment. Thompson warns that purification can engender the suspicion that powerful actors are indifferent to social perceptions, and suggests that hybridization can be an effective response to the perception of environmental harms.

scholarly journals Comparative Pessimism or Optimism: Depressed Mood, Risk-Taking, Social Utility and Desirability

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Milhabet ◽  
Emmanuelle Le Barbenchon ◽  
Laurent Cambon ◽  
Guylaine Molina
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Social Rejection ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Comparative Optimism ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Risk Takers

AbstractComparative optimism can be defined as a self-serving, asymmetric judgment of the future. It is often thought to be beneficial and socially accepted, whereas comparative pessimism is correlated with depression and socially rejected. Our goal was to examine the social acceptance of comparative optimism and the social rejection of comparative pessimism in two dimensions of social judgment, social desirability and social utility, considering the attributions of dysphoria and risk-taking potential (studies 2 and 3) on outlooks on the future. In three experiments, the participants assessed either one (study 1) or several (studies 2 and 3) fictional targets in two dimensions, social utility and social desirability. Targets exhibiting comparatively optimistic or pessimistic outlooks on the future were presented as non-depressed, depressed, or neither (control condition) (study 1); non-depressed or depressed (study 2); and non-depressed or in control condition (study 3). Two significant results were obtained: (1) social rejection of comparative pessimism in the social desirability dimension, which can be explained by its depressive feature; and (2) comparative optimism was socially accepted on the social utility dimension, which can be explained by the perception that comparatively optimistic individuals are potential risk-takers.

scholarly journals Social License to Operate in Mining: Present Views and Future Trends

Resources ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Komnitsas
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
High Tech ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Environmental Footprint ◽  
Green Technologies ◽  
Social License To Operate ◽  
Social License ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

The social license to operate (SLO) is an informal social contract that aims to bridge the gap among the views of the most important stakeholders involved in mining activities. The novelty of this paper lies in the fact that it discusses the current situation and the future prospects of granting a SLO, mainly at the European Union (EU) level, by considering the mine of the future, in terms of deep sea and landfill mining, and the criticality of raw materials that are required by high tech products as well as by emerging and green technologies. Also, it highlights the factors that may affect the views of all involved stakeholders, focusing on the joint efforts that are required by the industry and the society as well as on the main technological, social, political and legal issues which are relevant to the process. It is believed that if trust is developed between the involved stakeholders the SLO may prove an important tool in future mining in order to safeguard the supply of raw materials, minimize the environmental footprint and improve the quality of life in the affected regions. Finally, a conceptual flowsheet involving the main steps that may be followed for granting a SLO is proposed.

scholarly journals Identidad, cosmopolitismo y educación en las bandas de metal extremo: el caso de Finlandia

2020 ◽  
pp. 271
Author(s):  
Eugenio Otero Urtaza
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
The Social ◽  
Death Metal ◽  
The Future ◽  
Extreme Metal ◽  
Transnational Solidarity ◽  
Cultural Movement

Music is an art that often defines the education and values of people. Extreme Metal is a controversial musical genre that at times, in some of its subgenres, has caused episodes of exceptional violence. Metalheads make up a cultural movement that is present on all continents. Metal currents are difficult to dissolve in the magma of social acceptance: they create a consciousness of transnational solidarity, of response to waste and ostentation that destroys the planet, while claiming the place in which it is lived. Extreme Metal is not an artistic fashion, it is profoundly changing the mentality of many young people who reject the social organisation of the capitalist and Christian world and try to find alternatives for the future. In this article we ask how their convictions are formed and in what way the school's teachings influence them. One of the ways of studying the phenomenon is by analysing the lyrics of the songs. Not all subgenres can be covered and three Melodic Death Metal bands from Finland have been chosen for study, especially in relation to their feelings about nature and the cosmos. It is evident that their songs are often based on classical and popular poems learned at school? by the legacy left by the great Finnish poets, and even by the literary creations of musicians for that school resonance.

scholarly journals 234 Earning public trust in gene editing

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 57-58
Author(s):  
Amy te Plate-Church
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Gene Editing ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Oversight ◽  
Social License ◽  
The Social ◽  
Food Integrity

Abstract Gene editing has tremendous potential to benefit society and food production. Yet, the social license to develop the technology to its full potential is dependent on public support and market acceptance. Traditionally it has been assumed that sound science and appropriate government oversight will result in social acceptance of innovation. What consumers want first and foremost, according to research from The Center for Food Integrity (CFI), is to know that food producers share their values, like producing safe, affordable, nutritious food in a manner that protects our environment. Sixty-five percent of U.S. consumers surveyed want to know more about how food is produced (CFI, 2017). Testing of videos about CRISPR indicate more than half of viewers want to learn more, and support for CRISPR rose from 45 to 60% when given credible, clear and understandable information. In reviewing more than 15 studies about consumer opinions on biotechnology, CFI found these consistent themes. 1) There is a considerable knowledge gap among consumers – in science and modern plant and animal breeding. 2) Before describing gene editing, it is helpful to show the evolution of genetic improvement. 3) The public wants information from credentialed experts, but they do not want an academic explanation. 4) Analogies and visuals are important to explain science, and they should be understandable without being oversimplified. 5) Consumers show strongest support for benefits of science related to environmental stewardship, healthier food and disease resistance. 6) Consumers have additional questions about use of science in animals, compared to plants. Because scientists and academic institutions among the most-trusted sources for information about biotechnology, they have a unique opportunity to effectively engage and provide information the public wants and needs to make informed decisions about gene editing.

scholarly journals A játékok és a mesterséges intelligencia mint a kultúra jövője – egy kísérlet a szubjektivitás elméletének kialakítására

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Norbert Bátfai
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Research ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
The One

A cikk célja a mesterséges intelligencia kutatásokat az emberi önmegismerés szolgálatába állítani. Ehhez egyrészt filozófiai hátteret biztosítani, másrészt a mesterséges intelligencia társadalmi elfogadottságát megalapozni. Tézisünk, hogy az emberi kultúra fenntartásához és fejlesztéséhez a játékokon és a mesterséges intelligencián keresztül vezet az út. E tézis alátámasztásnak támogatására kísérletet teszünk a szubjektivitás elméletének megalapozására. --- Games and artificial intelligence as the future of culture: an attempt to develop a theory of subjectivity The goal of this paper is to use artificial intelligence research to acquire more extensive knowledge of ourselves. On the one hand, we provide a philosophical background to facilitate this, and on the other hand, we try to improve the social acceptance of artificial intelligence. We argue that the way to maintain and further develop human culture is through gaming and artificial intelligence. In support of this thesis we make an attempt to create a theory of subjectivity. Keywords: artificial intelligence, complexity, entropy, meme, computer games, esport

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