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Reindeer Husbandry and Global Environmental Change - Pastoralism in Fennoscandia

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This volume offers a holistic understanding of the environmental and societal challenges that affect reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia today.

Reindeer husbandry is a livelihood with a long traditional heritage and cultural importance. Like many other pastoral societies, reindeer herders are confronted with significant challenges. Covering Norway, Sweden and Finland - three countries with many differences and similarities - this volume examines how reindeer husbandry is affected by and responds to global environmental change and resource extraction in boreal and arctic social-ecological systems. Beginning with an historical overview of reindeer husbandry, the volume analyses the realities of the present from different perspectives and disciplines. Genetics, behavioural ecology of reindeer, other forms of land use, pastoralists' norms and knowledge, bio-economy and governance structures all set the stage for the complex internal and externally imposed dynamics within reindeer husbandry. In-depth analyses are devoted to particularly urgent challenges, such as land-use conflicts, climate change and predation, identified as having a high potential to shape the future pathways of the pastoral identity and productivity. These futures, with their risks and opportunities, are explored in the final section, offering a synthesis of the comparative approach between the three countries that runs as a recurring theme through the book. With its richness and depth, this volume contributes significantly to the understanding of the substantial impacts on pastoralist communities in northernmost Europe today, while highlighting viable pathways to maintaining reindeer husbandry for the future.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of both the natural and social sciences who work on natural resource management, global environmental change, pastoralism, ecology, social-ecological systems, rangeland management and Indigenous studies.
 
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial- No Derivatives 4.0 license.

List of contents

Part I. Reindeer pastoralism as social-ecological system  1. Reindeer pastoralism in Fennoscandia  2. Genetic structure and origin of semi-domesticated reindeer  Part II. Reindeer in their environment  3. Reindeer behavioural ecology and use of pastures in pastoral livelihoods  4. Pastures under pressure - effects of other land users and the environment  5. Reindeer husbandry and climate change - challenges for adaptation  6. Large predators and their impact on reindeer husbandry  Part III. Governance of reindeer pastoralism  7. Implications of norms and knowledge in customary reindeer herding units for resource governance  8. Unpacking reindeer husbandry governance in Sweden, Norway and Finland - a political discursive perspective  9. Governing maximum reindeer numbers in Fennoscandia  Part IV. Challenges for productivity, health and adaption of reindeer  10. The productive herd - past, present and perspectives  11. Bioeconomics of reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia  12. Role of supplementary feeding in reindeer husbandry  13. Health and diseases of semi-domesticated reindeer in a climate change perspective  Part V. Prospects and synthesis  14. Tipping points and regime shifts in reindeer husbandry - a systems approach  15. Pathways for action: the need for Sámi self-determination  16. Final reflections

About the author

Tim Horstkotte is a senior research engineer at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Sweden.
Øystein Holand is a professor, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway.
Jouko Kumpula is a senior research scientist at the Natural Resources Institute Finland.
Jon Moen is a professor at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Sweden.

Summary

This volume offers a holistic understanding of the environmental and societal challenges that affect reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia today.

Product details

Authors Ystein Holand, Tim Horstkotte, Tim Holand Horstkotte, Jouko Mo Kumpula
Assisted by Øystein Holand (Editor), Tim Horstkotte (Editor), Jouko Kumpula (Editor), Jon Moen (Editor)
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 29.01.2024
 
EAN 9780367632687
ISBN 978-0-367-63268-7
No. of pages 302
Dimensions 155 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
Series Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
Print on Demand
Subjects Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs
Guides > Nature

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Animal Husbandry, Animal Husbandry

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