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Archive | 2006

Reindeer Management in Northernmost Europe

Bruce C. Forbes; Manfred Bölter; Ludger Müller-Wille; Janne Hukkinen; Felix Müller; Nicolas Gunslay; Yulian Konstantinov

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Acta Borealia | 1999

Human environmental interactions in Upper Lapland, Finland: development of participatory research strategies

Ludger Müller-Wille; Janne Hukkinen

price are net prices, subject to local VAT. Prices indicated with * include VAT for books; the €(D) includes 7% for Germany, the €(A) includes 10% for Austria. Prices indicated with ** include VAT for electronic products; 19% for Germany, 20% for Austria. All prices exclusive of carriage charges. Prices and other details are subject to change without notice. All errors and omissions excepted. B.C. Forbes, M. Bölter, L. Müller-Wille, J. Hukkinen, F. Müller, N. Gunslay, Y. Konstantinov (Eds.) Reindeer Management in Northernmost Europe


Archive | 2010

Franz Boas and Inuktitut Terminology for Ice and Snow: From the Emergence of the Field to the “Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax”

Igor Krupnik; Ludger Müller-Wille

The paper outlines strategies for participatory research by comparing the results of a participatory workshop on research needs in human‐environmental interaction in Finnish Lapland with an analysis of official Finnish policy documents on the same subject. The workshop was organized in Anar/Inari, Finland in October 1997 as part of the Human Environmental Interactions theme (HEI) of the European Commissions Arctic‐Alpine Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Initiative (ARTERI). The mandate of ARTERI was to develop research themes and encourage their implementation to allow for discussions among local residents, natural and social scientists, and policy‐makers concerned with environmental protection and management in arctic and alpine regions of Europe. The objective of the Anar/Inari workshop was to discuss central issues of human‐environmental interaction in the region in a participatory mode with local interest groups, generate alternative scenarios for the region, and develop research and development proje...


Archive | 2006

Development of Participatory Institutions for Reindeer Management in Finland: A Diagnosis of Deliberation, Knowledge Integration and Sustainability

Janne Hukkinen; Ludger Müller-Wille; P. Aikio; Hannu I. Heikkinen; O. Jääskö; A. Laakso; H. Magga; S. Nevalainen; O. Pokuri; Kaisa Raitio; N. West

Franz Boas, the “founding father” of North American anthropology, has long been credited with many pioneer contributions to the field of Arctic anthropology, as a result of his first and only fieldwork among the Inuit on Baffin Island, following the First International Polar Year 1882–1883. In this new “polar year” the SIKU project has initiated several studies of the Inuit terminology for sea ice and snow, including in the areas of Baffin Island once surveyed by Boas, as well as in the nearby regions of Nunavut, Nunavik, Labrador, and Greenland. Also, in the past decade the story of Boas’ fieldwork on Baffin Island has become known in full, in diaries, personal letters, and field notes. This chapter capitalizes on these new sources: it examines Boas’ knowledge of the Inuit terminology for sea ice and snow and its value to current discussion about language, indigenous knowledge, the Inuit, and beyond. It also addresses the so-called Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax debate of the past decades that misconstrues Boas’ use of the Inuit terms and the analysis of the contemporary Inuit ice and snow vocabulary.


International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business | 2006

Dismantling the barriers to entrepreneurship in reindeer management in Finland

Janne Hukkinen; Hannu I. Heikkinen; Kaisa Raitio; Ludger Müller-Wille

The objective of this chapter is to diagnose the mechanisms by which a focused effort to integrate knowledge based on various professional and disciplinary backgrounds can result in emergent participatory institutions for resource management – in this case reindeer herding management in northern Finland. Considering knowledge integration as a process of institutionbuilding makes sense, since in environmental governance literature institutions are widely understood as working rules that are common knowledge to resource users (Ostrom 1990). In this context, the crucial point is the process of knowledge transfer through networking and communication. Three stages of knowledge integration characterize the entire research effort, which the authors conducted as Workpackage 1 (WP1) under the RENMAN project: (1) pioneer networking, (2) translational networking, and (3) modular networking (Bruun et al. 2002; Hukkinen et al. 2003b; Forbes et al. 2004). Our typology of knowledge integration draws from recent literature on organizational learning in innovation (Bruun et al. 2002; Langlais et al. 2004). The project became a prime example of a focused effort of knowledge integration, because every stage of it was based on participatory processes. We go on to show that the processes of knowledge integration hold the characteristics of emerging institutions for resource management: formal and informal rules were developed for the participatory process of the RENMAN project and proposed for future reindeer management; the rules were geographically specified; legitimate participants in the process were clearly defined; and conflict resolution and sanctioning mechanisms were proposed during the project (Hukkinen et al. 2002, 2003a; Heikkinen et al. 2003a).


Acta Borealia | 2010

Dynamics of Arctic Urbanization

Susanne Dybbroe; Jens Dahl; Ludger Müller-Wille

We will (1) show that reindeer herders in Finland have a long tradition of entrepreneurship; (2) identify administrative and policy obstacles to fulfilling the entrepreneurial capacities and (3) recommend actions to remove the obstacles to indigenous entrepreneurship among herders. Successful herders in Finland have embraced key entrepreneurial virtues: positioning themselves honestly with respect to their challenges, sparing resources and thinking strategically about the future. Unfortunately, government policy and administration in Finland do not facilitate the full utilisation of the virtues. However, policies and administrative structures can be reformed with carefully designed participatory approaches that rely on the expertise of herders, government officials and researchers of reindeer management. Our data comes from interviews, field visits and workshops organised during a three-year EU project on sustainable Reindeer Management (RENMAN). In addition, we have collected success stories of self-employment and entrepreneurship from four decades of fieldwork among herders in Finland.


International Journal of Business and Globalisation | 2008

Community viability and well-being in northernmost Europe: social change and cultural encounters, sustainable development and food security in Finland's North

Ludger Müller-Wille; Leo Granberg; Mika Helander; Lydia Heikkilä; Anni-Siiri Länsman; Tuula Tuisku; Delia Berrouard

Urbanism as a form of life and the processes of urbanization that have shaped them have fundamentally changed geographical regions and areas of human occupancy that until todays generation have be...


Archive | 2006

Synthesis: Environmental and Sociopolitical Conditions for Modern Reindeer Management in Europe’s North

Ludger Müller-Wille; Janne Hukkinen; Felix Müller; Manfred Bölter; Bruce C. Forbes

Northernmost Europe is characterised by diversity. Relations between indigenous (minority) and immigrant(majority) populations concern territorial claims, resource utilisation and human rights. Indigenous Sami feel encapsulated in centralised states. Norwegians, Swedes, Finns and Russians, historic immigrants, represent these states. The collapse of the Soviet Union effected cross-border relations. New structures have emerged stressing community viability. Developments have progressed in economic performance, human security, quality of life, education and health focusing of local activities such as reindeer herding. These conditions have an impact on transnational relations and community viability.


Acta Borealia | 2010

Precursors of Urban Processes in Finnish Sápmi in the 1960s

Ludger Müller-Wille

The intricate relationship between reindeer (Rangifer t. tarandus L.) and humans in the boreal, subarctic and arctic regions has attracted the keen attention of modern sciences since the early 20th century. Since the 1950s, various scientific traditions have shaped the emergence of separate foci dealing with the natural conditions of the animal and its environment on the one hand and the cultural and socioeconomic dimensions of human–reindeer relations on the other. This divergence of biological and anthropological interpretations of the circumstances of reindeer herding in specific ecosystems and cultural settings has also had an impact on management policies and practices. The measures had tended to rely mainly on results of research conducted by natural scientists. Such studies had focused mainly on natural status of pastures and reindeer, losses to predators, carrying capacity, “overgrazing”, and meat production. This type of research had to a large degree neglected the human element in the equation among people, livelihood, animals, and the socioeconomic and cultural significance. Until recently, little emphasis had been given to the intricate knowledge that the practitioners closest to the reindeer have of the animal, the environment, and the ensuing utilization by humans (Aikio 1978). At the beginning of the 21st century, in the circumpolar North, Rangifer populations and their users, herders, and hunters alike are under extensive sociopolitical and economic pressures that have altered and will continue to alter their relationship with reindeer and their own position within northern nation states and their economies (Chap. 2; Forbes and Kofinas 2000; Anderson and Nuttall 2004). These encompassing transformations require extensive


Plant ecology, herbivory, and human impact in Nordic Mountain Birch Forests | 2005

Competition Over Nature, Space, Resources and Management in the Mountain Birch Forest Ecosystem in Northernmost Fennoscandia: A Synthesis

D. Thannheiser; Ludger Müller-Wille; F. E. Wielgolaski; K. D. Meier

Abstract This article presents a single case of a Sámi–Finnish settlement in the 1960s to discuss the impact of expanding distribution and higher density of people, both aboriginal and immigrant, as precursors of urban processes that have occurred quite rapidly in Sápmi on the Finnish side in northernmost Europe. First, the historical emergence of Ohcejohka/Utsjoki as a central location resulting from national policies is explained; second, the socio-economic and political expansion of the local central settlement physically and socio-culturally is presented; and third, the environmental, economic, cultural and socio-political conditions and their significance are discussed in the broader context of developments throughout the circumpolar north leading to an increased urbanization of the arctic.

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Igor Krupnik

Smithsonian Institution

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Kaisa Raitio

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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A. Laakso

University of Lapland

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