The Management of Reindeer Pastures in Northern Fennoscandia

"Sami people in the northern Fennoscandia keep reindeer as semi-domestic animals. Ownership of the animals is individual while animals are kept together in herds in common pastures. "The herders move around with the herd between the inland and the coast according to the seasonal grazing co...

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Main Author: Kalstad, Johan Klemet
Format: Conference Object
Language:unknown
Published: 1995
Subjects:
reindeer
land tenure and use
grazing
herders
indigenous institutions
Social Organization
Land Tenure & Use
Fennoscandia
Finnmark
sami
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10535/2312
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spelling ftdlc:oai:http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu:10535/2312 2023-05-15T16:11:39+02:00 The Management of Reindeer Pastures in Northern Fennoscandia Kalstad, Johan Klemet Europe 1995 http://hdl.handle.net/10535/2312 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/10535/2312 Reinventing the Commons, the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property May 24-28, 1995 Bodoe, Norway reindeer land tenure and use grazing herders indigenous institutions Social Organization Land Tenure & Use Conference Paper unpublished 1995 ftdlc 2021-03-11T16:16:36Z "Sami people in the northern Fennoscandia keep reindeer as semi-domestic animals. Ownership of the animals is individual while animals are kept together in herds in common pastures. "The herders move around with the herd between the inland and the coast according to the seasonal grazing conditions. The summer pasture is divided in orohat (reindeer districts). A district is a geographical area in which some herders have exclusive grazing rights. In 1994 the Reindriftsadministrasjon has proposed to make only a few districts in Finnmark. Each district shall include both summer and winter pastures. At the same time the districts shall be responsible for the management of their pastures. "The proposal means that the boards of the districts shall plan land use, and their main tool is the number of animals the herders keep. Does the proposal mean empowering the Sami herder population? In this paper I will outline some dilemmas in the management of the reindeer pastures." Conference Object Fennoscandia Finnmark sami Finnmark Indiana University: Digital Library of the Commons (DLC)
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topic reindeer
land tenure and use
grazing
herders
indigenous institutions
Social Organization
Land Tenure & Use
spellingShingle reindeer
land tenure and use
grazing
herders
indigenous institutions
Social Organization
Land Tenure & Use
Kalstad, Johan Klemet
The Management of Reindeer Pastures in Northern Fennoscandia
topic_facet reindeer
land tenure and use
grazing
herders
indigenous institutions
Social Organization
Land Tenure & Use
description "Sami people in the northern Fennoscandia keep reindeer as semi-domestic animals. Ownership of the animals is individual while animals are kept together in herds in common pastures. "The herders move around with the herd between the inland and the coast according to the seasonal grazing conditions. The summer pasture is divided in orohat (reindeer districts). A district is a geographical area in which some herders have exclusive grazing rights. In 1994 the Reindriftsadministrasjon has proposed to make only a few districts in Finnmark. Each district shall include both summer and winter pastures. At the same time the districts shall be responsible for the management of their pastures. "The proposal means that the boards of the districts shall plan land use, and their main tool is the number of animals the herders keep. Does the proposal mean empowering the Sami herder population? In this paper I will outline some dilemmas in the management of the reindeer pastures."
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author Kalstad, Johan Klemet
author_facet Kalstad, Johan Klemet
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title The Management of Reindeer Pastures in Northern Fennoscandia
title_short The Management of Reindeer Pastures in Northern Fennoscandia
title_full The Management of Reindeer Pastures in Northern Fennoscandia
title_fullStr The Management of Reindeer Pastures in Northern Fennoscandia
title_full_unstemmed The Management of Reindeer Pastures in Northern Fennoscandia
title_sort management of reindeer pastures in northern fennoscandia
publishDate 1995
url http://hdl.handle.net/10535/2312
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genre Fennoscandia
Finnmark
sami
Finnmark
genre_facet Fennoscandia
Finnmark
sami
Finnmark
op_relation http://hdl.handle.net/10535/2312
Reinventing the Commons, the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
May 24-28, 1995
Bodoe, Norway
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