Impacts of arctic climate and land use changes on reindeer pastoralism: Indigenous knowledge and remote sensing

Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 177-205

  Maynard, Nancy G ^a   Oskal, Anders ^b   Turi, Johan M ^b   Mathiesen, Svein D ^b,c,d   Eira, Inger Marie G ^c   Yurchak, Boris ^a   Etylin, Vladimir ^e   Gebelein, Jennifer ^f  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry   (Norway)

^c Sami University College   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^e RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^f FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84869192676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9118-5_8     Document Type: Chapter

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