Reindeer Management in Northernmost Europe Linking Practical and Scientific Knowledge in Social-Ecological Systems - Forbes, Bruce C.; Bölter, Manfred; Müller-Wille, Ludger; Hukkinen, Janne; Müller, Felix; Gunslay, Nicolas; Konstantinov, Yulian; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
Prologue -- Prologue -- Herders and Reindeer: The Cultural and Socio-Economic Dynamics of Human-Animal Relations -- The Challenges of Modernity for Reindeer Management in Northernmost Europe -- Dynamics in Human-Reindeer Relations: Reflections on Prehistoric, Historic and Contemporary Practices in Northernmost Europe -- Development of Participatory Institutions for Reindeer Management in Finland: A Diagnosis of Deliberation, Knowledge Integration and Sustainability -- The Comparison of Indigenous and Scientific Perceptions of Reindeer Management -- The Challenges and Dilemmas of Concession Reindeer Management in Sweden -- Changes in Property Regimes and Reindeer Herding Management in Post-Soviet Herding Collectives: The Case of the Municipality of Lovozero (Murmansk Region, Northwest Russia) -- Reindeer Herding - Effects on Soils, Soil Biota and Vegetation -- Defining the Quality of Reindeer Pastures: The Perspectives of Sámi Reindeer Herders -- Very High Resolution Remote Sensing Data in Reindeer Pasture Inventory in Northern Fennoscandia -- Vegetation: Structure, Cover, and Biomass of Subarctic Tundra Wetlands Used as Summer Pastures -- The Chemical Response of Reindeer Summer Pasture Plants in a Subarctic Peatland to Ultraviolet (UV) Radiation -- Consequences of Grazing on Soil Physical and Mechanical Properties in Forest and Tundra Environments -- Changes in Organic Horizon Soil Properties Due to Reindeer Herding and Changing Management -- Changing Microbial Ecology with Changes in Grazing and its Management -- Hygienic Status of Soils and Surface Waters in Reindeer Herding Areas in Northernmost Europe -- Integrative Models for Reindeer Management: The Interface Between Social and Natural Sciences -- Population Trends of Semi-Domesticated Reindeer in Fennoscandia - Evaluation of Explanations -- Systems Analysis of Finnish Reindeer Management -- Synthesis: Environmental and Sociopolitical Conditions for Modern Reindeer Management in Europe's North -- Epilogue.
Keywords: Environmental management; Animal ecology; Sociology; Soil science; Soil conservation; Nature conservation; Plant ecology; Environmental Management; Animal Ecology; Sociology, general; Soil Science & Conservation; Nature Conservation; Plant Ecology