Between nature, law and social expectations – a case study of approaches to human–wildlife conflicts resulting from synanthropization and synurbanization in the Republic of Poland
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Dariusz J. Gwiazdowicz
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Aleksandra E. Matulewska
Abstract
The paper focuses on the growing problem of human–wildlife conflicts that are reported in urbanized areas in the Republic of Poland. The twenty-first century is the period of increased synanthropization and synurbanization of animals. The presence of animals in urbanized areas has both advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, contact with nature is considered beneficial for our psyche, but on the other hand wild animals damage property, participate in road collisions and sometimes pose threat to human health of life. Once the problems occur, citizens expect the authorities take some action. The aim of the paper is to present frequently conflicting social expectations concerning the problem at hand, legal solutions available and laws of nature. The research methods applied included: the analysis of legal provisions binding in the Republic of Poland combined with the interviews with representatives of institutions enforcing law in that respect, empirical observation of social attitudes and analyses of pertinent literature. The results reveals that inhabitants of cities in general opt for solutions that seem to be non-lethal for animals as they do not realize the risks involved for humans and animals. At the same time legal provisions are not sufficiently exhaustive to enable efficient problem solution.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- The YouTube-induced sequential categorization of the topical device of Amber Heard’s “lies”: an ethnomethodological forensic-linguistic perspective
- Exploring network content ecosystem evaluation model based on Chinese judicial discourse of digital platform
- Voluntary assisted dying and euthanasia’s perpetual pendulum in Australia
- Investigating the targeted use of (dis)agreement in leave to appeal decisions of the HKSAR appellate courts: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis
- Violence, responsibility and best interests: children rights in Elizabeth Harrower’s A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories
- Constructing cybersecurity discourse via deconstructing legislation
- Negotiation of justice: the discursive construction of attitudinal positioning in bilingual legal judgments of HKSAR v KWAN WAN KI
- Between nature, law and social expectations – a case study of approaches to human–wildlife conflicts resulting from synanthropization and synurbanization in the Republic of Poland
- Legal regulation of generative AI: a multidimensional construction
