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Shifting Strategies between Generations in Sami Reindeer Husbandry: the Challenges of Maintaining Traditions while Adapting to a Changing Context

Axelsson-Linkowski, Weronika; Fjellstrom, Anna-Maria; Sandstrom, Camilla; Westin, Anna; Ostlund, Lars; Moen, Jon

Sammanfattning

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.

Nyckelord

Strategies; Encroachments; Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK); Knowledge transmission; Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK); Climate change; Rangelands; Sami reindeer herding; Sweden

Publicerad i

Human Ecology
2020, Volym: 48, nummer: 4, sidor: 481-490
Utgivare: SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS

      SLU författare

        • Associerade SLU-program

        Samisk- och renskötselrelaterad forskning
        SLU Centrum för biologisk mångfald, CBM

        Globala målen

        Skydda, återställa och främja ett hållbart nyttjande av landbaserade ekosystem, hållbart bruka skogar, bekämpa ökenspridning, hejda och vrida tillbaka markförstöringen samt hejda förlusten av biologisk mångfald
        Vidta omedelbara åtgärder för att bekämpa klimatförändringarna och dess konsekvenser

        UKÄ forskningsämne

        Husdjursvetenskap
        Ekologi

        Publikationens identifierare

        DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-020-00171-3

        Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

        https://res.slu.se/id/publ/107729