caa a22 4500 445806753 CHVBK 20180317145158.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10745-011-9398-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10745-011-9398-7 Pastoral Herding Strategies and Governmental Management Objectives: Predation Compensation as a Risk Buffering Strategy in the Saami Reindeer Husbandry [Elektronische Daten] [Marius Næss, Bård-Jørgen Bårdsen, Elisabeth Pedersen, Torkild Tveraa] Previously it has been found that an important risk buffering strategy in the Saami reindeer husbandry in Norway is the accumulation of large herds of reindeer as this increases long-term household viability. Nevertheless, few studies have investigated how official policies, such as economic compensation for livestock losses, can influence pastoral strategies. This study investigated the effect of received predation compensation on individual husbandry units' future herd size. The main finding in this study is that predation compensation had a positive effect on husbandry units' future herd size. The effect of predation compensation, however, was nonlinear in some years, indicating that predation compensation had a positive effect on future herd size only up to a certain threshold whereby adding additional predation compensation had little effect on future herd size. More importantly, the effect of predation compensation was positive after controlling for reindeer density, indicating that for a given reindeer density husbandry units receiving more predation compensation performed better (measured as the size of future herds) compared to husbandry units receiving less compensation. The Author(s), 2011 Density-dependence nationallicence Governmental management nationallicence Nomadic pastoralism nationallicence Rangifer tarandus nationallicence Norway nationallicence Næss Marius CICERO - Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Fram Centre, 9296, Tromsø, Norway aut Bårdsen Bård-Jørgen Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Arctic Ecology Department, Fram Centre, 9296, Tromsø, Norway aut Pedersen Elisabeth Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Arctic Ecology Department, Fram Centre, 9296, Tromsø, Norway aut Tveraa Torkild Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Arctic Ecology Department, Fram Centre, 9296, Tromsø, Norway aut Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/4(2011-08-01), 489-508 0300-7839 39:4<489 2011 39 10745 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9398-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9398-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Næss Marius CICERO - Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Fram Centre, 9296, Tromsø, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bårdsen Bård-Jørgen Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Arctic Ecology Department, Fram Centre, 9296, Tromsø, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pedersen Elisabeth Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Arctic Ecology Department, Fram Centre, 9296, Tromsø, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tveraa Torkild Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Arctic Ecology Department, Fram Centre, 9296, Tromsø, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/4(2011-08-01), 489-508 0300-7839 39:4<489 2011 39 10745 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer