Includes bibliographical references.

Ungulates and their management in Norway / Reidar Andersen ... [et al.] -- Sweden / Olof Liberg ... [et al.] -- Denmark / Reidar Andersen and Vidar Holthe -- Finland / Vesa Ruusila and Ilpo Kojola -- The Baltics (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) / Žanete Andersone-Lilley ... [et al.] -- Great Britain and Ireland / Rory Putman -- The Netherlands / Sipke E. van Wieren and Geert W.T.A. Groot Bruinderink -- Belgium / Jim Casaer and Alain Licoppe -- Germany / Ulrich Wotschikowsky -- Poland / Piotr Wawrzyniak ... [et al.] -- Czech Republic / Luděk Bartoš, Radim Kotrba and Jan Pintíř -- Slovakia / Slavomír Find̕o and Michaela Skuban -- Hungary / Sándor Csányi and Róbert Lehoczki -- Romania / Ion Micu ... [et al.] -- Austria / Friedrich Reimoser and Susanne Reimoser -- Switzerland / Nicole Imesch-Bebié, Hans Gander and Reinhard Schnidrig-Petrig -- Portugal / José Vingada ... [et al.] -- Spain / Juan Carranza -- France / Daniel Maillard ... [et al.] -- Italy / Marco Apollonio ... [et al.] -- Slovenia / Miha Adamic and Klemen Jerina -- Croatia / Josip Kusak and Krešimir Krapinec -- Greece / Haritakis Papaioannou -- Serbia / Milan Paunovič and Duško Ćirović ; with John D.C. Linnell -- Macedonia / Aleksandar Stojanov ... [et al.] -- Present status and future challenges for European ungulate management / Marco Apollonio, Reidar Anderson and Rory Putman.

"This book is the first to explore the diversity of management objectives and the different approaches to wildlife management of large ungulates in a wide range of different European countries. Specialist authors from each country present an analysis of the species present, numerical status and distribution of different ungulates which occur in their particular country and consider issues which must be addressed by management (whether management for conservation, for control of damaging impacts or for exploitation). Management systems are described (and both legislative and administrative structures) together with an evaluation of how effective current management practices may be in addressing problems identified - or the extent to which they may contribute to those problems. The book is aimed primarily at those who may be actively involved in research into improving methods of wildlife management; practising wildlife managers and game-keepers; policy makers in local regional or national administrations, responsible for formulating policies"--Provided by publisher.