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Highlights:

• Compares two wildlife disease interventions in rural Norway: CWD in reindeer and Gyrodactylus salaris in salmon.
• Shows how biosecurity governance disrupts local stewardship institutions and practices.
• Introduces a comparative framework based on governance scale, risk framing, and institutional resilience.
• Demonstrates how local actors develop alternative, adaptive responses when empowered.
• Argues for integrating biosecurity and stewardship through shared authority and recognition of local knowledge.