Resilient communities? Collapse and recovery of a social-ecological system in Arctic Norway
Fisheries-dependent Sami communities in the Norwegian Arctic face major challenges adapting and responding to social-ecological changes. On a local scale, communities and households continually adapt and respond to interacting changes in natural conditions and governance frameworks. Degradation of t...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:d05cddcf7c934253ae931425239e9a8b 2023-05-15T15:00:02+02:00 Resilient communities? Collapse and recovery of a social-ecological system in Arctic Norway Else Grete Broderstad Einar Eythórsson 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06533-190301 https://doaj.org/article/d05cddcf7c934253ae931425239e9a8b EN eng Resilience Alliance http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss3/art1/ https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087 1708-3087 doi:10.5751/ES-06533-190301 https://doaj.org/article/d05cddcf7c934253ae931425239e9a8b Ecology and Society, Vol 19, Iss 3, p 1 (2014) coastal cod community response individual vessel quotas Porsá ŋ gu red king crab resilience Sami Parliament tipping points Vá rjat vuotna Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 article 2014 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06533-190301 2022-12-31T11:30:30Z Fisheries-dependent Sami communities in the Norwegian Arctic face major challenges adapting and responding to social-ecological changes. On a local scale, communities and households continually adapt and respond to interacting changes in natural conditions and governance frameworks. Degradation of the marine environment and decline in coastal settlements can move social-ecological systems beyond critical thresholds or tipping points, where the system irreversibly enters a different state. We examined the recent social-ecological history of 2 fjords in Finnmark, North Norway, which have coped, over the past 30 years, with the collapse of local fish stocks, harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) and red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) invasions, and increasingly restrictive resource management regimes. Further, we explored similarities and differences in their social-ecological histories and discuss how the concepts of resilience and tipping points can be applied as analytical tools in empirical studies of community response to social-ecological change. We show that although the ecological changes in the 2 communities have consisted of similar developments, they have been temporally different in ways that may have affected coping strategies and influenced the available options at different times. The apparent resilience of Sami fishing communities can be understood as the result of response strategies employed by communities and households, and the economic opportunities that have opened up as a result of a combination of ecological change and institutional and political reforms. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Finnmark Harp Seal North Norway Pagophilus groenlandicus Paralithodes camtschaticus Red king crab sami Finnmark Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Norway Ecology and Society 19 3 |
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Fisheries-dependent Sami communities in the Norwegian Arctic face major challenges adapting and responding to social-ecological changes. On a local scale, communities and households continually adapt and respond to interacting changes in natural conditions and governance frameworks. Degradation of the marine environment and decline in coastal settlements can move social-ecological systems beyond critical thresholds or tipping points, where the system irreversibly enters a different state. We examined the recent social-ecological history of 2 fjords in Finnmark, North Norway, which have coped, over the past 30 years, with the collapse of local fish stocks, harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) and red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) invasions, and increasingly restrictive resource management regimes. Further, we explored similarities and differences in their social-ecological histories and discuss how the concepts of resilience and tipping points can be applied as analytical tools in empirical studies of community response to social-ecological change. We show that although the ecological changes in the 2 communities have consisted of similar developments, they have been temporally different in ways that may have affected coping strategies and influenced the available options at different times. The apparent resilience of Sami fishing communities can be understood as the result of response strategies employed by communities and households, and the economic opportunities that have opened up as a result of a combination of ecological change and institutional and political reforms. |
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Resilient communities? Collapse and recovery of a social-ecological system in Arctic Norway |
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Resilient communities? Collapse and recovery of a social-ecological system in Arctic Norway |
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Resilient communities? Collapse and recovery of a social-ecological system in Arctic Norway |
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Resilient communities? Collapse and recovery of a social-ecological system in Arctic Norway |
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Resilient communities? Collapse and recovery of a social-ecological system in Arctic Norway |
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resilient communities? collapse and recovery of a social-ecological system in arctic norway |
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