We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
To save content items to your account,
please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies.
If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account.
Find out more about saving content to .
To save content items to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org
is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings
on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part
of your Kindle email address below.
Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations.
‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi.
‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Industrial extraction of natural resources has led to degraded ecosystems, loss of biodiversity, and species extinction. Improved management of resources is now an urgent concern. In Arctic Fennoscandia the effects of resource extraction are of particular concern. In this chapter we use examples from indigenous Sámi reindeer herding in northern Sweden and salmon fishing in the Kemijoki river valley in northern Finland. We show how the emergence of industrial mega systems has led to accumulating industrial land use that now severely encroaches on the ecosystems that reindeer and salmon depend on. The negative effects from encroachments is also further exacerbated by climate change. As a result, the culture-bearing activities of reindeer herding and salmon fishing that have shaped identities in Arctic Fennoscandia for centuries are facing rapidly deteriorating conditions. There are large-scale plans in northern Sweden and Finland to increase mining, wind energy production, and forestry. To avoid, or at least mitigate, long-lasting effects on the ecosystems represented by reindeer and salmon, adequate assessments of cumulative effects from industrial developments are urgently needed.
Recommend this
Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this to your organisation's collection.