Living with climate variation and change : A comparative study of resilience embedded in the social organisation of reindeer pastoralism in Western Finnmark and Yamal Peninsula

• Main Author: Turi, Ellen Inga
• Other Authors: Arild Underdal; Florian Stammler, Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland; Mikkel Nils Sara, Sami University College, Kautokeino
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: VDP::240; Norway; Yamal Peninsula; Finnmark; Northern Norway; Sámi; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/14839; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-19029

Reindeer pastoralism is a nomadic circumpolar livelihood involving more than 20 different indigenous peoples around the entire circumpolar north. The livelihood involves approximately 100,000 people and 2,5 million semi domesticated reindeer. This thesis is a comparative study of the social organiza...