Changing Patters in Managing Wildlife Commons in Brittany

Abstract

"The radical changes in the population structure of three Breton villages affect the traditional management of wildlife, and re- questions the traditional activities related to it, in this case, the hunt. The study follows the field-research that took place around Paimpont Forest during the 2006-2007 hunting season. The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the relationship between the demographic dynamics and the changing patterns in managing the wildlife commons. The starting point of the research is the use and the social representations of the natural environment among different socio-economic categories of inhabitants. Furthermore, considering the French literature related to the topic, new insights of the definition of neo-rurality are drawn."