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Modernization and Pasture Degradation: A Comparative Study of Two Sámi Reindeer Pasture Regions in Norway

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  • Jan Åge Riseth
  • Arild Vatn

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We compare two reindeer pasture regions in Norway. Both were exposed to the same external changes, such a new technologies, increased market access, and new state policies. As North became overgrazed in the 1980s, South was not. In explaining this, we focus on interaction between such external factors and internal characteristics like the natural resource base and the Sámi institutions. South herder leaders pursued institutional transformations included in state policies, however, the state policy was not legitimate in the North. We recommend focus on self-governance, cultural dynamics, and examining many relevant factors before the imposition of changes in governance structures and incentive systems.

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  • Jan Åge Riseth & Arild Vatn, 2009. "Modernization and Pasture Degradation: A Comparative Study of Two Sámi Reindeer Pasture Regions in Norway," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 85(1), pages 87-106.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:landec:v:85:y:2009:i:1:p:87-106
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    1. Arild Vatn, 2005. "Institutions and the Environment," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 2826.
    2. Vatn, Arild, 2005. "Rationality, institutions and environmental policy," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 55(2), pages 203-217, November.
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    1. Leo Dana & Jan Age Riseth, 2011. "Reindeer Herders in Finland: Pulled to Community-based Entrepreneurship & Pushed to Individualistic Firms'," ERSA conference papers ersa10p1448, European Regional Science Association.
    2. Anne Borge Johannesen & Jon Olaf Olaussen & Anders Skonhoft, 2019. "Livestock and Carnivores: Economic and Ecological Interactions," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 74(1), pages 295-317, September.
    3. Riseth, Jan Åge & Tømmervik, Hans & Bjerke, Jarle W., 2016. "175 years of adaptation: North Scandinavian Sámi reindeer herding between government policies and winter climate variability (1835–2010)," Journal of Forest Economics, Elsevier, vol. 24(C), pages 186-204.
    4. Leo Paul Dana & Jan åge Riseth, 2012. "Sámi reindeer herders in Finland: pulled to community-based entrepreneurship and pushed to individualistic firms," Chapters, in: Charlie Karlsson & Börje Johansson & Roger R. Stough (ed.), Entrepreneurship, Social Capital and Governance, chapter 15, pages 358-377, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • Q24 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Land

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