Self-Governance and Sami Communities : Transitions in Early Modern Natural Resource Management

• Tác giả: Jesper Larsson, Eva-Lotta Päiviö Sjaunja
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3030874988
• ISBN: 978-3-030-87498-8
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 333.70899457 Land, recreational and wilderness areas, energy
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bern : Springer Nature, 2022
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (247 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 219572
• Chủ đề: 1. Agricultural science; 2. Anthropology; 3. Economic history; 4. Environmental economics; 5. Historical geography

Tóm tắt

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.