Axelsson Linkowski, Weronika and Fjellstrom, Anna-Maria and Sandstrom, Camilla and Westin, Anna and Östlund, Lars and Moen, Jon
(2020).
Shifting Strategies between Generations in Sami Reindeer Husbandry: the Challenges of Maintaining Traditions while Adapting to a Changing Context.
Human Ecology. 48
, 481-490
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Abstract
Many traditional pastoralist systems are greatly impacted by cumulative encroachments of other land users and by climate change. Understanding land degradation and the adaptive capacity of people who are dependent on the rangelands is an urgent priority for many areas in the world. In this research we explore how changing environmental conditions affect herding strategies on winter pastures and the role of indigenous and local traditional knowledge (ILK) in Sami reindeer husbandry. Our results indicate that traditional Sami reindeer herding strategies are still practiced, but that rapidly changing environmental circumstances are forcing herders into uncharted territories where these traditional strategies and the transmission of knowledge between generations may be of limited use. For example, rotational grazing is no longer possible as all pastures are being used, and changes in climate result in unpredictable weather patterns unknown to earlier generations.
Authors/Creators: | Axelsson Linkowski, Weronika and Fjellstrom, Anna-Maria and Sandstrom, Camilla and Westin, Anna and Östlund, Lars and Moen, Jon | ||||||
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Title: | Shifting Strategies between Generations in Sami Reindeer Husbandry: the Challenges of Maintaining Traditions while Adapting to a Changing Context | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2020 | ||||||
Volume: | 48 | ||||||
Page range: | 481-490 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 10 | ||||||
Publisher: | Springer Nature | ||||||
ISSN: | 0300-7839 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Journal article | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 402 Animal and Dairy Science > Animal and Dairy Science. (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 106 Biological Sciences (Medical to be 3 and Agricultural to be 4) > Ecology | ||||||
Keywords: | Strategies, Encroachments, Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK), Knowledge transmission, Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), Climate change, Rangelands, Sami reindeer herding, Sweden | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-107729 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-107729 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 17543 | ||||||
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap S - Faculty of Forest Sciences | ||||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Swedish Biodiversity Centre (S) > Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 05 Oct 2020 06:51 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 05 Oct 2020 06:51 |
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