Tipping points and regime shifts in reindeer husbandry: A systems approach
This chapter addresses the challenges to reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia from a systems perspective. Drawing on information in other chapters in this book, the specific focus is on so called tipping points, or abrupt changes in the coupled social-ecological system. Tipping points may occur when e...
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ftslunivuppsala:oai:pub.epsilon.slu.se:34047 2024-06-09T07:45:53+00:00 Tipping points and regime shifts in reindeer husbandry: A systems approach Löf, Annette 2022 application/pdf https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/34047/ https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/34047/1/moen-j-et-al-20240515.pdf en eng eng https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/34047/1/moen-j-et-al-20240515.pdf Löf, Annette (2022). Tipping points and regime shifts in reindeer husbandry: A systems approach. I/In: Reindeer Husbandry and Global Environmental Change : Pastoralism in Fennoscandia. Sid./p. 265-277. Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management . UNSPECIFIED ISBN 978-0-367-63267-0 [Book Chapter] Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (Peace and Conflict Research and Studies on Sustainable Society) Book Chapter NonPeerReviewed info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart 2022 ftslunivuppsala 2024-05-16T05:40:02Z This chapter addresses the challenges to reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia from a systems perspective. Drawing on information in other chapters in this book, the specific focus is on so called tipping points, or abrupt changes in the coupled social-ecological system. Tipping points may occur when external drivers push a system to an alternative system state, characterized by different feedbacks than in the original state. Compared to ‘ideal’ or traditional reindeer husbandry, examples of alternative states include reliance on supplementary feeding to compensate for losses of pastures, fencing herds to provide protection from predation, becoming a meat-processing industry based on more centralized herding practices and a total loss of reindeer husbandry. All of these states are seen as undesirable by the herders. Reindeer husbandry, as it is currently practised, requires intact social-ecological relationships within the herding districts, as well as in their interaction with the external society. These system qualities need to be strengthened as they innately provide resilience, and will demand structural, institutional and legislative changes, but also discursive changes of how we imagine what sustainability is, and whether herders are treated as one of many stakeholders or as the rights holders that they really are according to the law. Book Part Fennoscandia reindeer husbandry Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU): Epsilon Open Archive |
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This chapter addresses the challenges to reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia from a systems perspective. Drawing on information in other chapters in this book, the specific focus is on so called tipping points, or abrupt changes in the coupled social-ecological system. Tipping points may occur when external drivers push a system to an alternative system state, characterized by different feedbacks than in the original state. Compared to ‘ideal’ or traditional reindeer husbandry, examples of alternative states include reliance on supplementary feeding to compensate for losses of pastures, fencing herds to provide protection from predation, becoming a meat-processing industry based on more centralized herding practices and a total loss of reindeer husbandry. All of these states are seen as undesirable by the herders. Reindeer husbandry, as it is currently practised, requires intact social-ecological relationships within the herding districts, as well as in their interaction with the external society. These system qualities need to be strengthened as they innately provide resilience, and will demand structural, institutional and legislative changes, but also discursive changes of how we imagine what sustainability is, and whether herders are treated as one of many stakeholders or as the rights holders that they really are according to the law. |
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https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/34047/1/moen-j-et-al-20240515.pdf Löf, Annette (2022). Tipping points and regime shifts in reindeer husbandry: A systems approach. I/In: Reindeer Husbandry and Global Environmental Change : Pastoralism in Fennoscandia. Sid./p. 265-277. Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management . UNSPECIFIED ISBN 978-0-367-63267-0 [Book Chapter] |
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