Nenets migration in the landscape: impacts of industrial development in Yamal peninsula, Russia

Pastoralism

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Degteva, Anna ^a,b,c   Nellemann, Christian ^d  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Sami University College   (Norway)

^c UArctic EALat Institute at International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry   (Norway)

^d United Nations Environment Programme GRID Arendal   (Norway)

Author keywords

Herders; Impact assessment; Indigenous; Infrastructure; Nomadic; Oil and gas; Reindeer; Siberia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975257273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20417136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-7136-3-15     Document Type: Article

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