When Humans and Animals Clash : The Science and Law of Human-Animal Conflict

Human–animal conflict is complex and multifactorial, demanding holistic, multidisciplinary solutions. When Humans and Animals Clash: The Science and Law of Human–Animal Conflict offers practical guidance to identify causes, avoid false allegations, apportion responsibility, assess compensation, weigh ethics and law, and shape policy.

When humans and animals clash there is often physical, economic, political and sociological damage due to creeping urbanisation, agriculture, climate change, war,political turbulence and economic migration. The causes of human-animal conflict are complex and multifactorial. This book is a compendium of advice about how to identify perpetrators, allocate responsibility,avoid wrongful allegations, address the causes, assess compensation and considerother forms of reparation, make legal and ethical judgments, and formulate policy. It draws on hard-won experience in many domains, including conservation, medicine, pathology, law, and moral philosophy. This is a comprehensive guide for all those confronted by human-animal conflict - practitioners of veterinary and human medicine, policy-makers, wildlife and community managers, administrators and farmers. There is a vast, sprawling literature on human-animal conflict: here it is, distilled.