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Lennart Olsson, LUCSUS

Lennart Olsson

Professor, Docent

Lennart Olsson, LUCSUS

Pastureland restoration is urgent for Sámi reindeer pastoralism to coexist with the forest industry and adapt to climate change in Northern Sweden

Author

  • David Harnesk
  • Lennart Olsson
  • Didac Pascual

Editor

  • Nina Baron
  • Nina Blom Andersen
  • Rico Kongsager

Summary, in English

Key recommendations

Pastureland restoration must be implemented to reduce dependency on
coping mechanisms such as emergency feeding, mechanized transport and
intense workloads. These coping mechanisms are increasingly used to deal
with the cumulative effects of encroachments from competing land uses,
predator pressure, and the impacts of climate change on snow conditions.

Vigorous thinning of dense, managed forests is a critical pastureland
restoration measures that can reverse the negative trend of loss, degradation
and fragmentation of ground lichens, which are key forage resources for
reindeer during snow periods. Other studies show that implementing such
restoration measures can benefit both reindeer pastoralism and forestry.

Conservation of old-growth and primary forests would further improve the
conditions for Sámi reindeer pastoralism as such forests are habitats for
pendulous lichens, another key forage resource, and are important for cultural
heritage, biodiversity conservation, and carbon storage.

Pastureland restoration measures that improve the ecological conditions for
Sámi reindeer pastoralism must be adapted to local and landscape scale
conditions, and Indigenous and local knowledge can help in that process.

Department/s

  • LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
  • LU Profile Area: Human rights
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science

Publishing year

2024-10-01

Language

English

Publication/Series

Climate Change Resilience in Small Communities : Policy recommendation from Nordic research project

Document type

Report chapter

Topic

  • Human Geography

Status

Published

Project

  • Climate Change Resilience in Small Communities in the Nordic Countries

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-87-93894-78-8