Pastoral Herding Strategies and Governmental Management Objectives: Predation Compensation as a Risk Buffering Strategy in the Saami Reindeer Husbandry |
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Authors: | Marius Warg Næss Bård-Jørgen Bårdsen Elisabeth Pedersen Torkild Tveraa |
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Institution: | 1.CICERO - Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Fram Centre,Troms?,Norway;2.Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Arctic Ecology Department,Fram Centre,Troms?,Norway;3.Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education,University of Troms?,Troms?,Norway |
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Abstract: | 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, few studies have investigated how
official policies, such as economic compensation for livestock losses, can influence pastoral strategies. This study investigated
the effect of received predation compensation on individual husbandry units’ future herd size. The main finding in this study
is that predation compensation had a positive effect on husbandry units’ future herd size. The effect of predation compensation,
however, was nonlinear in some years, indicating that predation compensation had a positive effect on future herd size only
up to a certain threshold whereby adding additional predation compensation had little effect on future herd size. More importantly,
the effect of predation compensation was positive after controlling for reindeer density, indicating that for a given reindeer
density husbandry units receiving more predation compensation performed better (measured as the size of future herds) compared
to husbandry units receiving less compensation. |
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