Adapting to Climate Change in Reindeer Herding: The Nation-State as Problem and Solution.

• Main Authors: Erik S. Reinert, Iulie Aslaksen, Marie G. Eira, Svein Mathiesen, Hugo Reinert, Ellen Inga Turi
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Arctic; Norway; The Fours; Climate change; Fennoscandia; saami
• Online Access: http://hum.ttu.ee/wp/paper16.pdf

This paper discusses the role of nation-states and their systems of gover- nance as sources of barriers and solutions to adaptation to climate change from the point of view of Saami reindeer herders. The Saami, inhabiting the northernmost areas of Fennoscandia, is one of more than twenty ethnic grou...