Open AccessFinal report of the NOR project "Management of reindeer pastures under uncertainty" Report title: "A decision-tool for adaptation of reindeer herds to rangeland: the user's manual".
Author(s) -
Erling Moxnes,
Öje Danell,
E. Gaare,
Jouko Kumpula
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
rangifer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1890-6729
pISSN - 0333-256X
DOI - 10.7557/2.23.4.1646
Subject(s) - normative , agriculture , intuition , environmental resource management , operations research , environmental planning , geography , political science , engineering , environmental science , psychology , archaeology , law , cognitive science
The management of reindeer ranges is a complicated task as indicated both by the complexity of the normative analyses required and the mismanagement observed in real and laboratory settings. The present report is a user’s manual to a decision-tool that attempts to strike a balance between complex normative analyses and practical decision-making. A simulator is provided to give decision-makers experience with the tool and to build intuition for strategies. Several cases are used to illustrate the use of the decision-tool and to demonstrate how even scarce and imprecise data can yield important insights. The project has been financed by “Nordisk ministerråd” under the program “Nordiska miljöstrategin för jord- och skogsbruk 1996-1999”. It was initiated and administered by “Nordisk organ for reinforskning”, NOR