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oapen-20.500.12657-519402021-12-14T02:45:43Z Self-Governance and Sami Communities Larsson, Jesper Päiviö Sjaunja, Eva-Lotta Economic anthropology of Sami communities Natural resource management Natural resource management history Socioecological systems Sami self-governance Reindeer husbandry Land-use practices Property rights and economics Open Access bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCN Environmental economics bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTP Historical geography bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TV Agriculture & farming::TVB Agricultural science bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy This open access book uses an interdisciplinary approach that not only focuses on social organization but also analyzes how societies and ecological settings were interwoven. How did early modern indigenous Sami inhabitants in interior northwest Fennoscandia build institutions for governance of natural resources? The book answers this question by exploring how they made decisions regarding natural resource management, mainly with regard to wild game, fish, and grazing land and illuminate how Sami users, in a changing economy, altered the long-term rules for use of land and water in a self-governance context. The early modern period was a transforming phase of property rights due to fundamental changes in Sami economy: from an economy based on fishing and hunting to an economy where reindeer pastoralism became the main occupation for many Sami. The book gives a new portrayal of how proficiently and systematically indigenous inhabitants organized and governed natural assets and how capable they were in building highly functioning institutions for governance. 2021-12-13T18:55:28Z 2021-12-13T18:55:28Z 2022 book ONIX_20211213_9783030874988_21 9783030874988 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51940 eng application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-87498-8.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-87498-8 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-87498-8 10.1007/978-3-030-87498-8 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 3c88f282-86b3-4569-a7ed-3baac99d3273 9783030874988 Palgrave Macmillan 247 Bern [grantnumber unknown] open access
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This open access book uses an interdisciplinary approach that not only focuses on social organization but also analyzes how societies and ecological settings were interwoven. How did early modern indigenous Sami inhabitants in interior northwest Fennoscandia build institutions for governance of natural resources? The book answers this question by exploring how they made decisions regarding natural resource management, mainly with regard to wild game, fish, and grazing land and illuminate how Sami users, in a changing economy, altered the long-term rules for use of land and water in a self-governance context. The early modern period was a transforming phase of property rights due to fundamental changes in Sami economy: from an economy based on fishing and hunting to an economy where reindeer pastoralism became the main occupation for many Sami. The book gives a new portrayal of how proficiently and systematically indigenous inhabitants organized and governed natural assets and how capable they were in building highly functioning institutions for governance.
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