Commons in a cold climate
Subtitle: coastal fisheries and reindeer pastoralism in North Norway : the co-management approach
By: edited by Svein Jentoft.
Contributors: Jentoft, Svein, 1948-
Series: Man and the biosphere series ;; v. 22
Publisher: UNESCO; Parthenon Pub.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Paris; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Fishery co-management -- Norway.; Reindeer herding -- Norway.; Natural resources, Communal -- Norway -- Management.; Natural resources -- Co-management -- Norway.; Reindeer farming -- Norway.
Description: "The present volume brings together the results and conclusions of a research initiative on the sustainable management of common property bioresources. Though the book is focussed on a particular geographical area and two specific resource use systems - small-scale fisheries and reindeer pastoralism in northern Norway - the topics addressed have much wider relevance and application. Thus, issues pervading the book include the resource practices and usage rights of indigenous peoples, the driving factors affecting the overuse and degradation of biological resources, social and institutional dimensions of natural resource management, weighting biological, economic and social concerns in political decision-making, and the participation of different interest groups in collaborative management processes."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.