Overview
- Uses an interdisciplinary approach that focuses on social organization
- Analyzes how societies and ecological settings were interwoven
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Gives new insight on how proficiently and systematically indigenous inhabitants organized natural assets
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Starting Points and Background
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Land Use, Livelihood, and Ecological Settings
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Synthesis
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About this book
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.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jesper Larsson is an associate professor and senior lecturer in Agrarian History at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. He is an affiliated faculty to the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University Bloomington. This book is part of his appointment as a research fellow at The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
Eva-Lotta Päiviö Sjaunja is a researcher in Agrarian History at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. She is a doctor of philosophy in Agricultural Sciences and did her postdoctoral work at the Department of Economic History at Stockholm University. She also works as senior analyst at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. She is of Sami descent.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Self-Governance and Sami Communities
Book Subtitle: Transitions in Early Modern Natural Resource Management
Authors: Jesper Larsson, Eva-Lotta Päiviö Sjaunja
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87498-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87497-1Published: 29 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87500-8Published: 29 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87498-8Published: 29 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 247
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Anthropology, Historical Geography, Economic History, Agricultural Economics, Economic Policy