Self-Governance and Sami Communities

How did early modern indigenous Sami inhabitants in interior northwest
Fennoscandia1 build institutions for governance of natural resources? We
answer this question by exploring how they made decisions regarding
natural resource management, mainly with regard to wild game, fish, and
grazing land. Furthermore, we illuminate how Sami users, in a changing
economy, altered the long-term rules for use of land and water in a selfgovernance context. Our focus is set on the “rules on the ground,” that is, how they went about to establish and change property rights on a
local level, and how they solved social dilemmas associated with natural
resource use.
[2021]

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