Part I: Introduction, Framework, Methods and Starting Points -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Linking long-term changes in socioecological systems with the development of property rights -- Chapter 3: Methods and staring points -- Chapter 4: Important variables -- Part II: Land Use,...

This open access book uses an interdisciplinary approach that not only focuses on social organization but also analyzes how societies and ecological settings were interwoven. How did early modern indigenous Sami inhabitants in interior northwest Fennoscandia build institutions for governance of...

The Sami have lived for time immemorial in an area that today extends across the Kola Peninsula in Russia, northern Finland, northern Norway's coast and inland, and the northern half of Sweden. The Sami play an important role in these northern economies thanks to their use of land, their...