• The ghost of development past : the impact of economic security policies on Saami pastoral ecosystems 

      Hausner, Vera Helene; Fauchald, Per; Tveraa, Torkild; Pedersen, Elisabeth; Jernsletten, Johnny-Leo L.; Ulvevadet, Birgitte; Ims, Rolf Anker; Yoccoz, Nigel; Bråthen, Kari Anne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      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 ...
    • The governance of Sami reindeer husbandry in Norway : institutional challenges of co-management 

      Ulvevadet, Birgitte (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2012-06-15)
      Denne avhandlingen er basert på en kvalitativ studie fra forvaltningen av reindriften i Norge. Målet med forvaltningen av reindriften i Norge er å oppnå en økologisk, økonomisk, og kulturell bærekraftig reindrift. Disse målene har blitt forsøkt oppnådd gjennom et governance system fordi myndighetene har erkjent at det å inkludere ressursbrukere i forvaltningsmessige beslutningsprosesser skaper en ...
    • Management of reindeer husbandry in Norway – power-sharing and participation 

      Ulvevadet, Birgitte (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2008)
      Many governments have come to realize that the best way to manage natural resources is to include the resource users in order to increase legitimacy for governance. For the Sami reindeer industry, the Norwegian government has implemented two different management models in order to meet this challenge. On the one hand, there is a corporative management model where a few democratically elected reindeer ...