Deer Forests, Sporting Estates and the Aristocracy

Jarvie, Grant; Jackson, Lorna

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“…An important aspect of the economics of wildlife resources is the marked distributional impacts in terms of both geography and people affected; illustrating this point, the literature tends to focus on more remote areas, where the economic contribution wildlife make to relatively more fragile rural economies is of greater importance. In the Scottish Highlands, for example, deer stalking is relatively important in economic terms because the productive capacity of land utilized for deer stalking is particularly poor, and does not lend itself well to alternative economic options (Jarvie & Jackson, 1998). Historically, deer stalking has also been the preserve of very wealthy individuals (Lorimer, 2000; Wightman et al ., 2002) and has been exclusive in nature; a recent survey found that only 3500 people participate in stalking in Scotland (equivalent to less than 0.001% of the population), and that most were white, over 50 years of age, and in the AB (managerial and professional) social class (TNS, 2004).…”

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Consumptive and non‐consumptive values of wild mammals in Britain

MacMillan

Phillip

2008

Mammal Review

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1. Wildlife make an important contribution to the rural economy; generating jobs, income and profits from food and sporting enterprises, and contributing in less direct ways by bringing pleasure from viewing and learning. This paper reviews the literature regarding the contribution made by wildlife to the rural economy and to British society more widely. The review focuses on UK studies published in peer-reviewed journals and official web-based sources in the last 20 years. 2. Traditional activities such as deer stalking remain an important source of wealth and employment, but their overall contribution is declining relative to non-consumptive uses such as wildlife tourism. 3. Much of the literature focuses on the negative impacts of mammals on commercial activities such as agriculture and forestry, even though these impacts are relatively insignificant in economic terms at both regional and national levels. 4. Wild meat provides a niche in the contemporary food market, but, although demand is growing, growth is handicapped by a fragmented supply chain and lack of marketing. 5. In comparison with other rural resources such as farming, the contribution made by wild mammals to the rural economy appears small, even in relatively remote regions, but this may partly reflect gaps in the literature regarding their contribution via less formal markets, hobby activities, and in supporting ecosystem equilibrium.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Consumptive and non‐consumptive values of wild mammals in Britain

MacMillan

Phillip

2008

Mammal Review

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“…Highland estates were let, sold, and increasingly managed specifically for these activities. By 1893 sporting rents contributed, on average, 44% of the rental income on Highland estates (Jarvie and Jackson, 1998). The Highlands were becoming less a site of agricultural production and more an upper-class recreational area where the imagery of clan society added romantic flavor to a landscape viewed as scenic wilderness.…”

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Why community ownership? Understanding land reform in Scotland

Hoffman¹

2013

Land Use Policy

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“…Originating in the late eighteenth century, sporting estates expanded rapidly in the second half of the nineteenth (Jarvie and Jackson, 1998;McKee et al 2013: 64). They now number about 340 (Wightman, 2010: 163) and cover between 1.8 and 2.1 million hectares (MacMillan et al proportion of these is likely to have belonged to the same family since the nineteenth century (Jarvie and Jackson, 1998). They also display considerable management continuity (McKee et al 2013;Samuel, 2000).…”

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“…Those with a direct interest in animals (Jarvie and Jackson, 1998). For this group, the 'romance' of running a sporting estate and the privacy that it affords (MacMillan et al 2010: 37-9), combined with its soundness as an investment, are powerful cultural and economic incentives to maintain a status quo that has endured for more than 150 years.…”

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Hunting cultures and the ‘northern periphery’: Exploring their relationship in Scotland and Finland

Watts

Matilainen

Kurki

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Journal of Rural Studies

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Hunting is a rural activity and attempts to influence it are often framed, in northern Europe, in terms of 'urban elites' seeking to impose their will on 'rural' cultures. Hunting cultures are the subject of this paper, but instead of focusing on their relationship with conservation, as most previous work has done, it explores their interaction with proposals to expand commercial hunting tourism to generate endogenous economic development in remote rural areas of Scotland and Finland. It does so by examining stakeholders' attitudes towards the potential for increased commercial hunting tourism in peripheral areas in Scotland and Finland. The paper identifies a neoliberal policy perspective that recasts such areas as 'resource peripheries' and outlines their dominant hunting cultures. Using qualitative, semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, it explores the motives and means for dominant hunting cultures to exert 'frictional' resistance on attempts to 're-map' peripheral areas in ways which were perceived to work against their interests. The paper highlights the importance of taking account of the influence of dominant hunting cultures on attempts to introduce neoliberal economic development policies in resource peripheries, especially where they may have an impact on game resources. By demonstrating the frictional resistance that they can exert on such policies, it sheds light on a neglected aspect of hunting cultures. The paper suggests that, rather than demonstrating the limits of neoliberalism, these northern peripheries are increasingly its deliberately constructed 'other'. This is because Scotland's and, to lesser but growing extent, Finland's dominant hunting cultures are maintained by people who lives are led for the most part outside the 'northern periphery'.

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Deer Forests, Sporting Estates and the Aristocracy

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

Consumptive and non‐consumptive values of wild mammals in Britain

Consumptive and non‐consumptive values of wild mammals in Britain

Why community ownership? Understanding land reform in Scotland

Hunting cultures and the ‘northern periphery’: Exploring their relationship in Scotland and Finland

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