Designing a community-based insurance scheme to reduce human–wildlife conflict

Sherchan, Roshan; Kumar, Rajesh; Rai, Roshani; Dhakal, Arun

doi:10.1007/s10668-021-01652-1

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“…Human-wildlife conflicts are unavoidable. Thus, a win-win situation with a favorable environment and facilitative interaction is required for coexistence [39,67]. Park has been working to minimize the conflict through support for the construction of concrete wall, mesh wire fencing and electric fencing around the settlement, and changing cropping patterns.…”

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“…In addition, compensation payment creates a substantial economic burden on the park and the nation. In contrast, it is not able to ensure the desired tolerance towards wildlife damage as the amount is not enough and entails a long, tedious process [39,66,67]. A study showed that, on average, the payments are received after more than half a year of the incident in Chitwan National Park [39], and all the processes for compensation application are also same in the Bardia National Park.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Livestock Predation by Leopards in Bardia National Park, Nepal

Dhakal

Rimal²,

Paudel

et al. 2023

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Human–wildlife conflict is a challenging issue that requires the attention of conservationists worldwide. Habitat fragmentation and encroachment reduce the abundance of prey species, and an increase in the number of predators leads to a higher risk of conflict with large cats such as leopards, jeopardizing conservation efforts. This study explored the spatio-temporal pattern of the human–leopard conflict in Bardia National Park, Nepal, from 2000 to 2020. To analyze the conflict with leopards, we used data (compensation cases filed in the park) from the buffer zone management office, the National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), and the Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC). Leopard attacks on livestock are increasing exponentially, with 3335 livestock killed in 2652 attacks occurring during the study period. Although livestock depredation by leopards occurred all over the park, the southern cluster has most documented livestock damage (64.01%). The eastern and northern clusters reported fluctuating and dispersed predation events, respectively. Our spatial analysis indicated no effect of topography (slope) on livestock depredation by leopards. We recorded the highest number of leopard attacks and predation during the dry winter season when the nights are longer and livestock remain in their sheds. This carnivore mostly limited its prey to small-sized livestock (95.77%) such as goats, sheep, and pigs, whereas attacks on large-sized (cow and buffalo) livestock were least frequent. Among small-sized livestock, goats are the most predated (66.92%), followed by pigs (20.30%), in all seasons. The escalating human–leopard conflict in BNP is thus a severe threat to conservation efforts as the park has already invested a substantial amount of money (approx. USD 80,000) compensating for livestock lost in leopard attacks over the last two decades. Improving habitat conditions to reduce competition inside the park, developing an insurance scheme for livestock and humans, providing support for upgraded sheds, and the development of practical and feasible strategies that focus on specific animals and clusters of the national park are needed to reduce conflicts to maintain the co-existence between wildlife and human beings.

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Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Livestock Predation by Leopards in Bardia National Park, Nepal

Dhakal

Rimal²,

Paudel

et al. 2023

Land

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“…First, we aim to identify community‐preferred policy alternatives for dealing with HWC using the choice experiment (CE) methodology. This methodology has been successfully employed in the field of wildlife management (Harihar et al, 2015; Nguyen et al, 2022; Subroy et al, 2018) and is particularly well‐suited for studies related to HWC management practices and policy perspectives (Hanley et al, 2010; Kubo & Shoji, 2014; Sherchan et al, 2022). Second, we used the identified policy alternatives to create scenario planning to assist park management in decision‐making.…”

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Eliciting community‐preferred policy alternatives for achieving workable coexistence in a human‐dominated landscape: Insights from Chitwan National Park, Nepal

Ferdin,

Lee,

Dhungana

et al. 2023

Conservat Sci and Prac

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Human‐wildlife conflict is a global issue that poses a major threat to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. Wildlife adapted to human‐modified landscapes in developing countries can threaten the safety and livelihood of local communities. In such landscapes, where people and wildlife compete for resources, community involvement is promoted to achieve workable coexistence. We used a choice experiment methodology approach to identify community‐preferred policy alternatives in Chitwan National Park in south‐central Nepal. The results indicated that conflicts between the local community and wildlife are on the rise, crop damage being the highest form of damage and most perceived compensation and fencing as conflict‐mitigation tools. The choice experiment showed that residents have a positive preference for enhancing livelihood diversification skills, cultivating buffer crops, promoting alternative livelihoods, and strengthening rapid response teams. We identified concerned mitigators who are younger age group, encountered and concurred that HWC is increasing, and agreed that fencing and compensation are conflict‐mitigation tools. We designed scenario planning using community‐preferred policy alternatives to assist the park management. This is the first‐choice experiment study to design an evaluation framework under community resilience perspectives to achieve workable coexistence. Our study has potential implications for promoting coexistence in a human‐dominated landscape.

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“…Insurance companies must form an insurance community to address the large risk of damages, catastrophe insurance market supply and demand imbalances, etc. [13]. The insurance community refers to a community of long-term interests formed by several insurance companies in accordance with the agreed articles of association, which jointly provide insurance protection and risk management for specific risks [14].…”

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Cost Sharing in Insurance Communities: A Hybrid Approach Based on Multiple-Choice Objective Programming and Cooperative Games

Cao

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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At present, utilizing the insurance community is a common method to deal with investment risks along the Belt and Road; however, there is no clear method or mechanism to deal with the decision-making optimization and cost allocation of the insurance community participants. We propose a hybrid approach to solve this problem. First, we construct an underwriting decision optimization model for the insurance community using the multi-choice goal programming method, which generates the cost characteristic function based on a cooperative alliance. Second, we use the cooperative game method combined with the modified Shapley value method to take risk factors into consideration, which allows us to optimize the cost allocation among members of the insurance community. Finally, our simulation analysis results show that the multi-choice goal programming method can optimize the insurance community’s underwriting decisions. Specifically, the total underwriting cost is lower than the sum of the underwriting costs under the insurance company’s single-action strategy, and the total underwriting scale is as large as possible. Compared with the classical Shapley value method, the modified Shapley value method can better reflect differences in the underwriting risks of different regions, encouraging governments to take measures to reduce underwriting risks. To conclude, we propose some suggestions based on our research findings. The possible contributions of this paper are as follows: our research provides a hybrid optimization method based on multiple-choice objective programming and cooperative games to solve the cost allocation problem facing the insurance community, and it has some reference value for improving the cost-sharing system of the insurance community.

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Designing a community-based insurance scheme to reduce human–wildlife conflict

Cited by 8 publications

References 43 publications

Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Livestock Predation by Leopards in Bardia National Park, Nepal

Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Livestock Predation by Leopards in Bardia National Park, Nepal

Eliciting community‐preferred policy alternatives for achieving workable coexistence in a human‐dominated landscape: Insights from Chitwan National Park, Nepal

Cost Sharing in Insurance Communities: A Hybrid Approach Based on Multiple-Choice Objective Programming and Cooperative Games

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