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...

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,...