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What will happen to Sámi reindeer herding in the light of the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on climate change in the North? [PDF]

, 2007
While the Association of World Reindeer Herders (WRH) is pleased that the IPCC, established by UNEP and the WMO, are taking the issue of climate change in the North seriously, we are extremely concerned that the very basis of livelihoods in the Arctic is
Association of World Reindeer Herders, -
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Introducing a special issue: What lessons to be learnt from reindeer-herding research in Russia?

Pastoralism
This introductory paper outlines the aim and tasks of the special issue “Reindeer herding research: Crossing disciplinary and regional borders of biology and social science”.
Joachim Otto Habeck, Kirill V. Istomin
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Traditional ecological knowledge among Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden about vascular plants grazed by reindeer

Rangifer, 2013
Traditional knowledge about how reindeer utilize forage resources was expected to be crucial to reindeer herders. Seventeen Sami reindeer herders in four reindeer herding communities in Sweden (“samebyar” in Swedish) were interviewed about plants species
Berit Inga, Öje Danell
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Custodial reindeer and custodial goats - part of reindeer herding and animal husbandry

Rangifer, 2009
The Sami husbandry has traditionally incorporated reindeer, which did not belong to the nomadic household. According to the national census from 1875, this system was found in many parts of Norway. Among the counties, Nordland stood out having the highest number of households owing custodial reindeer.
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Response distances of wild forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus Lönnb.) and semi-domestic reindeer (R. t. tarandus L.) to direct provocation by a human on foot/snowshoes

Rangifer, 2013
The objective of the study was to examine response distances of wild forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus Lönnb.) and semi-domestic reindeer (R. t.
Mauri Nieminen
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Skolt Sami Reindeer Ownership: Structural Changes as the Triggers of a New Era

Open Agriculture, 2019
This article combines views of economic and legal anthropology in its exploration of Skolt Sami reindeer ownership. The Skolt Sami culture and its key form of livelihood, reindeer herding, have adjusted to the modern industrial society fairly well so far,
Itkonen Panu M.
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Suicide among reindeer herding Sámi in Sweden, 1961-2017. [PDF]

Int J Circumpolar Health, 2020
Jacobsson L, Stoor JPA, Eriksson A.
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Changes in reindeer herding work and their effect on occupational accidents

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2006
The aims of the study were to investigate the risk of occupational accidents in reindeer herding work in the long run, and to find out if the changes of work processes caused by joining the European Union in 1995 can be seen in accident statistics.The information on reindeer herders' occupational accidents was obtained from the Farmers' Social ...
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Cultural Group Selection and the Evolution of Reindeer Herding in Norway

Human Ecology, 2019
Abstract Herding can be characterized as a coordination game with two strategies for minimising risk: increase herd size (livestock quantity ) or increase livestock body mass (livestock quality ).
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Securing Futures: The Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and Reindeer Herding History

Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development
This article explores the complex history of reindeer herding in North America and contextualizes its connection to other Arctic Indigenous nations, from the S.mi people to its contemporary management by the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC ...
Mervi Maarit Salo
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