Is sustainable resource utilisation a relevant concept in Avanersuaq? The walrus case
This article addresses the role of Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) in present-day Avanersuaq from anthropological and biological perspectives, and asks whether or not sustainable resource utilisation is a useful concept in northwest Greenland. We describe the relations that unfold aroun...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5963566 2023-05-15T15:33:59+02:00 Is sustainable resource utilisation a relevant concept in Avanersuaq? The walrus case Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter Flora, Janne 2018-03-07 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5963566/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29516444 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1032-0 en eng Springer Netherlands http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5963566/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29516444 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1032-0 © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. CC-BY Article Text 2018 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1032-0 2018-06-10T00:13:21Z This article addresses the role of Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) in present-day Avanersuaq from anthropological and biological perspectives, and asks whether or not sustainable resource utilisation is a useful concept in northwest Greenland. We describe the relations that unfold around walrus and walrus hunting, in the communities living adjacent to the North Water polynya on the eastern side of Smith Sound. We examine the interplay of walrus population abundance, hunting practices, uses, and formal (governmental) and informal (traditional) ways of regulating the hunt, and we analyse how walruses acquire multiple values as they circulate in different networks. Sustainable resource utilisation, we conclude, is a concept that is relevant in Avanersuaq and beyond, because it works as a biological standard, and hence organises laws, norms, and practices of formal management. Simultaneously, the term is problematic, because it ignores manifold levels of human and societal values connected to walrus. Text Avanersuaq Greenland Odobenus rosmarus Smith sound walrus* PubMed Central (PMC) Greenland Smith Sound ENVELOPE(-73.996,-73.996,78.419,78.419) Ambio 47 S2 265 280 |
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This article addresses the role of Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) in present-day Avanersuaq from anthropological and biological perspectives, and asks whether or not sustainable resource utilisation is a useful concept in northwest Greenland. We describe the relations that unfold around walrus and walrus hunting, in the communities living adjacent to the North Water polynya on the eastern side of Smith Sound. We examine the interplay of walrus population abundance, hunting practices, uses, and formal (governmental) and informal (traditional) ways of regulating the hunt, and we analyse how walruses acquire multiple values as they circulate in different networks. Sustainable resource utilisation, we conclude, is a concept that is relevant in Avanersuaq and beyond, because it works as a biological standard, and hence organises laws, norms, and practices of formal management. Simultaneously, the term is problematic, because it ignores manifold levels of human and societal values connected to walrus. |
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