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dc.contributor.authorRiseth, Jan Åge
dc.contributor.authorTømmervik, Hans
dc.contributor.authorTryland, Morten
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-21T13:15:50Z
dc.date.available2020-08-21T13:15:50Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-18
dc.description.abstractThis paper inquires whether reindeer herders’ traditional knowledge (TK) provides a reservoir of precaution and adaptation possibilities that may be relevant to counteract climate change. As our core example, we used the milking of reindeer—which, in some areas, was practiced up until the 1950s–1960s—and the risk of getting foot rot disease (digital necrobacillosis; slubbo in North Sámi), caused by the bacterium Fusobacterium necrophorum. Via wounds or scratches, the bacterium creates an infection that makes the infected limb swell and, eventually, necrotize. The disease is often mortal in its final stage. Historically, female reindeer were gathered on unfenced milking meadows near herder tents or in small corrals, from early summer onward. When the soil was wet and muddy, the risk of developing digital necrobacillosis was considerable. Our sources included classical Sámi author/herder narratives, ethnographic and veterinary literature, and herder interviews. For this study, we conducted a qualitative review of the literature and carried out individual in-depth interviews with local knowledge holders. Our findings seem consistent: a documented prevention strategy was, in early summer, to move the reindeer to unused grazing land and to avoid staying too long in trampled and dirty grazing land. Contemporary climate change and winter uncertainty due to freeze–thaw cycles and ice-locked pastures challenge this type of strategy. Due to a lack of pasture resources, typical actions today include the increased use of supplementary feeding, which involves more gathering and handling of reindeer, higher animal density, challenging hygienic conditions, and stress, which all contribute to increased risks of contracting and transmitting diseases.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRiseth JÅ, Tømmervik H, Tryland M. Spreading or Gathering? Can Traditional Knowledge be a Resource to Tackle Reindeer Diseases Associated with Climate Change? . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1823832
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17166002
dc.identifier.issn1660-4601
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/19107
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.relation.journalInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Agriculture and fishery disciplines: 900::Agriculture disciplines: 910::Livestock breeding, rearing, reproduction: 912en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Landbruks- og Fiskerifag: 900::Landbruksfag: 910::Husdyravl, oppdrett, forplantning: 912en_US
dc.titleSpreading or Gathering? Can Traditional Knowledge be a Resource to Tackle Reindeer Diseases Associated with Climate Change?en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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