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| Title |
Mobile Phone Use and Human–Wildlife Conflict in Northern Tanzania
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Environmental Management, March 2016
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00267-016-0694-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ashley L. Lewis, Timothy D. Baird, Michael G. Sorice |
| Abstract |
Throughout the developing world, mobile phones are spreading rapidly into rural areas where subsistence livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, and human-wildlife conflict (HWC) are each common. Despite this trend, little is known about the relationship between mobile phones and HWC in conservation landscapes. This paper examines this relationship within ethnically Maasai communities in northern Tanzania on the border of Tarangire National Park. Mixed qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis are used to (1) describe how Maasai agro-pastoralists use phones to manage human-wildlife interactions; and (2) assess the relationship between phone use and measures of HWC, controlling for other factors. The findings indicate that households use phones to reduce the number and severity of HWC events and that the relationship between phones and HWC varies according to the type of HWC. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 157 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 154 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 29 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 25 | 16% |
| Researcher | 23 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 24 | 15% |
| Unknown | 36 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 44 | 28% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 36 | 23% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 8% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 5 | 3% |
| Arts and Humanities | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 12 | 8% |
| Unknown | 43 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 63. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 July 2017.
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#676,227
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Outputs from Environmental Management
#32
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#12,217
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#2
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