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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 52 avhandlingar innehållade orden reindeer herding.
21. Transforming Kiruna : Producing Space, Society, and Legacies of Inequality in the Swedish Ore Fields
Sammanfattning : Extractive resources industries are irreversibly transforming land, air, water, life and society around the world at an unprecedented rate, and Sweden is no exception. This anthropological study analyzes acute issues related to this transformation: the resettlement of six thousand residents of the city of Kiruna due to ground deformations caused by large-scale iron mining by the Swedish state-owned company LKAB (Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB). LÄS MER
22. In Search of a Fulfilling Identity in a Modern World: Narratives of Indigenous Identities in Sweden and Canada
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the identity of individuals with parents from two different ethnic groups. The focus is on individuals in Sweden with one Saami parent and one Swedish (or other European) parent, and individuals in Canada with one Native (Indian or Inuit) parent and one Euro-Canadian parent. LÄS MER
23. Towards adaptive management of reindeer grazing resources
Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to create a scientifically founded proposal for improvement of optimal and sustainable use of reindeer pasture resources by an adaptive management approach. Hence, the adaptive management concept is reviewed and discussed with specific reference to reindeer husbandry. LÄS MER
24. Reindeer herding and modern forestry : the historical impacts on forests of two main land users in northern Sweden
Sammanfattning : Forestry and reindeer herding are the two geographically most extensive forms of forest utilisation throughout the northern parts of Sweden today. Until the 18th century the interior parts of northern Sweden were predominately occupied by native Sami people. From the mid-18th century the area was rapidly colonized by farmers. LÄS MER
25. Fire, people and reindeer in the boreal forest : the role of fire in the historical and contemporary interactions between Sami reindeer herding and forest management in northern Sweden
Sammanfattning : In the boreal forest of northern Sweden, fire was used from around 1920 to 1970 as a forest regeneration measure, and then abandoned for some decades. Since the 1990s, fire restoration has been carried out through regeneration and conservation burning in commercial and protected forests. LÄS MER