Self-Governance and Sami Communities : : Transitions in Early Modern Natural Resource Management.

• Author: Larsson, Jesper.
• TeilnehmendeR: Päiviö Sjaunja, Eva-Lotta.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Part I Starting Points and Background -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 Linking Long-Term Changes in Social-Ecological Systems with Development of Property Rights -- Self-Governance -- Common-Pool Resources and Property Rights -- Connecting Variables for Policy Decisions -- References -- 3 Lule Lappmark and Sources -- Lule Lappmark -- Lappmark, Sami Village, and Siida -- Winter Villages -- Users in Mountains and Forests -- Sources -- Early Modern Accounts -- Court Rulings -- Solving Conflicts in Practice -- Rulings from Lule Lappmark -- References -- 4 Trade, Taxation, and Population -- Trade -- Taxation -- Population Size -- References -- Part II Land Use, Livelihood, and Ecological Settings -- 5 Fishing -- Strategies for Fishing -- Lakes, Rivers, Streams, and Fish -- Available Technology -- Labor Division -- Importance of Resources -- Property-Rights System -- Inheritance -- Limited Access to Resources -- Users' Obtaining Access to Fishing Waters -- Delineation of Boundaries Between Users -- Sharing of Fishing Waters -- Temporal Division of Fishing Rights -- Fishing Rights Decoupled from Grazing Rights -- Survival on Fishing -- Fishing Strategies in Low-Productivity Waters -- Pre- and Post-Harvest Activities -- Institutions for Management -- References -- 6 Hunting -- Hunting in Research About Sami -- Methods and Sources -- Hunting in Interior Fennoscandia -- Hunting in the Mountains -- Hunting in the Boreal Forest -- Ecological Differences -- Importance of Prey Animals -- Property Rights -- Participation in Hunting -- Social Justice -- References -- 7 Reindeer Pastoralism -- The Development of Reindeer Herding -- What Is Pastoralism? -- The Debate About the Shift from Fishing and Hunting to Pastoralism -- Number of Reindeer -- Use of Reindeer -- Grazing Conditions.

Two Trajectories -- Mobility, Flexibility, and Reciprocity -- Three Steps -- Creating a Common-Property Regime -- References -- 8 Other Income Sources -- Plants, Berries, and Handcrafts -- Cultivation, Livestock, and Caring for Reindeer -- Trade and Transports -- Relative Importance of Various Subsistence Activities -- References -- Part III Synthesis -- 9 From Private to Common: Coevolution of Land-Use Practices and Property Rights -- Hunting and Fishing to Reindeer Pastoralism -- Property Rights -- Governing -- Social Justice -- Final Remarks -- References -- Archival Sources -- Index.