Browsing Journal articles by Subject "VDP::Social anthropology: 250"
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Climate change, risk management and the end of Nomadic pastoralism
(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 ... -
Pastoral herding strategies and governmental management objectives: predation compensation as a risk buffering strategy in the Saami reindeer husbandry
(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
(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 ...