Conservation Biology: Series Number 23: Human-Wildlife Interactions: Turning Conflict into Coexistence

Author Biography

Beatrice Frank is the Social Science Specialist for Capital Regional District Regional Parks, Canada and an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria. In the last ten years, she has focused on better defining tolerance and coexistence and developed the conflict-to-coexistence concept proposed in this book, which she is furthering in her most recent research and publications on wildlife and protected areas. Jenny A. Glikman is Associate Director of Community Engagement at the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research, and board member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Task Force on Human-Wildlife Conflict. As a social scientist, she focuses on understanding the relationships between humans and wildlife. Her work spans from studying and addressing human-wildlife interactions, to exploring various aspects of local consumers of wildlife products in several countries. Silvio Marchini is a research associate at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU),University of Oxford, and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and conservation fellow at Chester Zoo. He is a board member of the IUCN Task Force on Human-Wildlife Conflict and of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Conservation Planning Specialist Group. His current work focuses on ways to upscale the analysis and management of human-wildlife conflicts.