Bioeconomics of reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia

• Main Authors: Pekkarinen, Antti Juhani, Kumpula, Jouko, Holand, Øystein, Åhman, Birgitta, Tahvonen, Olli
• Other Authors: Horstkotte, Tim, Moen, Jon, Environmental and Resource Economics, Economic-ecological optimization group, Department of Forest Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Ecology; evolutionary biology; Economics; Arctic; Slaughter; Fennoscandia; Fennoscandian; reindeer husbandry
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/355579

Reindeer husbandry is an important economic activity in the Arctic. Growth rate and productivity of reindeer populations depend on pasture conditions, but herders’ decisions are also influenced by economic factors. Thus, to understand the reindeer husbandry system, an economic–ecological analysis is...