The Ghost of Development Past: the Impact of Economic Security Policies on Saami Pastoral Ecosystems

Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

Hausner, Vera¹ 

关键词: big push;    development policies;    economic security trap;    environmental risks;    pastoralist ecosystems;    resilience;    Saami;    tundra;    win-win;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-04193-160304

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Resilience Alliance Publications

【 摘 要 】

To ensure economic viability over time, any efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals need to reconcile conservation with development interventions. Particularly, in marginal and risk prone areas erosion of resilience could make production systems more susceptible to environmental risks that compromise the economic security. By longitudinal analyses of long-term data records we investigated the impacts of big push policies on Saami pastoral ecosystems in Arctic Norway. The big push was accompanied by reindeer herd accumulation and a corresponding degradation of resilience, increasing the susceptibility to herd losses to predators and adverse winters. For the last 20 years the Norwegian government has worked to halt degradation of pasture ecosystems and reduce susceptibility to environmental risks. These intended win-win policies have mainly been based on economic incentives, which have been developed together with Saami pastoralists through negotiated agreements. We argue that the continued degradation of the Saami pastoral ecosystems is a

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