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Resilience Thinking in Reindeer Husbandry
, 2023 AbstractResilience expresses the capacity of a social-ecological system to adapt to, absorb, or withstand perturbations and other stressors so that the system remains. Reindeer nomadic husbandry is a coupled social-ecological system that sustains resilience by interacting with the animals and environment: either the herders adjust their actions to ...
Tonkopeeva, Marina +7 more
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Bioeconomics of reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia
, 2022 Reindeer husbandry is an important economic activity in the Arctic. Growth rate and productivity of reindeer populations depend on pasture conditions, but herders’ decisions are also influenced by economic factors. Thus, to understand the reindeer husbandry system, an economic–ecological analysis is needed.
Antti-Juhani Pekkarinen +4 more
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Rangifer, 2017 The Nordic Conference on Reindeer Husbandry Research 2017 was held from 29 to 31 May in Jukkasjärvi, Kriuna, Sweden, hosted by the Reindeer section of NJF (Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists) in collaboration with the Nordic Centre of ...
Birgitta Åhman, Eva Wiklund
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Natural resource potential of northern regions: methodological characteristics of comprehensive assessment [PDF]
, 2015 The economic assessment of renewable natural resources remains a relevant and as yet unresolved problem. Today, the economic assessment of natural resources is viewed as one of the priority tasks in the state strategy for environmental management.
Balashenko, V. V. +2 more
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Success and failure of reindeer herding in Greenland
Rangifer, 1999 Animal husbandry is a recent innovation in Greenland, specifically reindeer husbandry is less than 50 years old. Reindeer husbandry was first established in mid-west Greenland and later in southern Greenland. The Greenland hunter tradition and culture is,
Christine Cuyler
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Methodological Toolkit for Assessing the Investment Attractiveness of Renewable Resources in Northern and Arctic Territories [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines a pressing issue of assessing the investment attractiveness of renewable resources in underdeveloped Northern and Arctic territories that have a huge untapped natural resource potential.
Balashenko, V. V. +3 more
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Legal regulation of reindeer husbandry
Сельское хозяйство, 2022 The subject of the work is the legal norms regulating social relations arising in the process of reindeer husbandry. The purpose of the work is to formulate conclusions and proposals for improving legal regulation in this area based on the analysis of federal and regional legislation, strategic planning documents, as well as information and data ...
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Approaches to estimate body condition from slaughter records in reindeer
Rangifer, 2008 Long-term fluctuations in population densities of reindeer and caribou are common, where pasture is the limiting resource. Pasture quality affects the nutritional status and production of the animals.
Anna Olofsson +3 more
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Rangifer, 2009 The 51 reindeer herding districts in Sweden vary in productivity and prerequisites for reindeer herding. In this study we characterize and group reindeer herding districts based on relevant factors affecting reindeer productivity, i.e.
Henrik Lundqvist, Öje Danell
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Breeding schemes in reindeer husbandry
Rangifer, 2003 The objective of the paper was to investigate annual genetic gain from selection (G), and the influence of selection on the inbreeding effective population size (Ne), for different possible breeding schemes within a reindeer herding district. The breeding schemes were analysed for different proportions of the population within a herding district ...
Rönnegård, Lars +2 more
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