Managing predators, managing reindeer: Contested conceptions of predator policies in Finland's southeast reindeer herding area

Polar Record

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 218-230

  Heikkinen, Hannu I ^a   Moilanen, Outi ^a   Nuttall, Mark ^a,b   Sarkki, Simo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEER; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STAKEHOLDER;

FINLAND;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 79960219746     PISSN: 00322474     EISSN: 14753057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0032247410000513     Document Type: Article

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