Balancing Stakeholders With An Imbalanced Budget: How Continued Inequities In Wildlife Funding Maintains Old Management Styles

摘要

Decker and associates (Decker,Krueger,Baer,Knuth,& Richmond,1996) called for wildlife professionals to fully embrace a stakeholder approach to management.This new approach should replace the previous tradition in wildlife management,in which 'expert' managers catered to the interests of their traditional 'clients,' (i.e.,the hunters,anglers,and trappers who paid for wildlife management through taxes and fees).Values toward wildlife have become more diverse in recent decades,with rapid growth in the animal welfare and animal rights movements (Muth & Jamison,2000).