Browsing CICERO Research Archive by Author "Næss, Marius Warg"
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Climate change, risk management and the end of Nomadic pastoralism
Næss, Marius Warg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Mobility has been argued to be the single factor explaining why some pastoralists do relatively well during extreme climatic events, while others do not, because mobility works by taking advantage of the spatial and temporal ... -
Cooperative Pastoral Production: Reconceptualizing the Relationship between Pastoral Labor and Production
Næss, Marius Warg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)A review of the literature concerning nomadic pastoralism reveals a prevalent assumption of a positive effect of labor inputs on pastoral production. However, studies that have tried to quantify the relationship between ... -
Pastoral herding strategies and governmental management objectives: predation compensation as a risk buffering strategy in the Saami reindeer husbandry
Næss, Marius Warg; Bårdsen, Bård-Jørgen; Pedersen, Elisabeth; Tveraa, Torkild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Previously it has been found that an important risk buffering strategy in the Saami reindeer husbandry in Norway is the accumulation of large herds of reindeer as this increases long-term household viability. Nevertheless, ... -
Wealth-dependent and interdependent strategies in the Saami reindeer husbandry, Norway
Næss, Marius Warg; Bårdsen, Bård-Jørgen; Tveraa, Torkild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)It has been argued that decisions in relation to choosing strategies to a large degree depend on an organism's state. For nomadic pastoralists, wealth is an important state variable since it has been argued that differences ... -
Why herd size matters - mitigating the effects of livestock crashes
Næss, Marius Warg; Bårdsen, Bård-Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)Analysing the effect of pastoral risk management strategies provides insights into a system of subsistence that have persevered in marginal areas for hundreds to thousands of years and may shed light into the future of ...