- European and International Law Studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Social and Educational Sciences
- Historical Legal Studies and Society
- Mining and Resource Management
- Military and Defense Studies
- Research in Social Sciences
- Environmental law and policy
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Intelligence, Security, War Strategy
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Military History and Strategy
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- International Environmental Law and Policies
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Securities Regulation and Market Practices
- Religious Freedom and Discrimination
- Historical Influence and Diplomacy
- Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence
Luleå University of Technology
2006-2024
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2017-2018
For the first time in Swedish Supreme Court, a small Sami reindeer herding community has won an important victory affirming community’s game hunting and fishing rights. Because of protracted use concept immemorial prescription, Court recognised exclusive rights, including right to lease these rights others. Such leases have long been prohibited by legislation State retained its powers administer such leases. This case signifies considerable development area law. In decision, made some...
Recent global and regional assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity Ecosystem Services (IPBES) show that Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) are under an alarming threat due continuing loss biodiversity. These call for increasing conservation efforts a more sustainable use biodiversity enhance chances halting reversing current trends. One strategies achieve change is mainstream into sectoral policies. Mainstreaming, concept can be traced back Brundtland...
Abstract : One of the challenges facing writer is keeping up with developments in information age. While Command, Control, and Common Defense provides a historical perspective on contemporary problem, it was written late l980s; since then, end Cold War American experience Gulf have provided some fundamentally new perspectives their own. Re-written history has its own pitfalls; better solution to leave original content intact add as an epilogue chapter which originally appeared 1995 anthology...
Although the standard of consulting Indigenous peoples in decisions affecting them is well rooted internationally as national legal systems, different views and patterns problems are associated with concept its practice. This paper briefly analyses contrasts duty to consult through a comparison three Nordic countries Norway, Finland Sweden, Canada. Based on domestic sources, focus explore foundation that has given rise specific set rules for consult, is, rationale behind evolving rules. The...
Abstract Mine developments in Indigenous territories risk disrupting cultures and their economies, including spiraling already high levels of conflict. This is the situation Canada, Sweden, Norway, as elsewhere, fostered by current state legal framework that reflect historical trajectories, although circumstances are gradually changing. Promising institutional changes have taken place British Columbia (BC), with respect to new legislative reforms. Notably, legislation from 2019 intends...
Territorial rights are important for the Sámi people, as they all indigenous peoples. Land is asset which supports culture and responsible its long-standing survival. This article compares property laws in Norway, Sweden Finland to how land natural resources articulated recognized. These based on old doctrines: “immemorial usage” Norway prescription” Finland. Although doctrines generally regarded equivalent, discusses a few significant differences. Subsequently basic principles underpinning...
Territorial rights are important for the Sami people, as they all indigenous peoples. Land is asset which supports culture and responsible its long-standing survival. This article compares property laws in Norway, Sweden Finland to how land natural resources articulated recognized. These based on old doctrines: “immemorial usage” Norway prescription” Finland. Although doctrines generally regarded equivalent, discusses a few significant differences. Subsequently basic principles underpinning...
Journal Article Command, Control, and The Common Defense. By C. Kenneth Allard. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. xiv + 317 pp. $25.00.) Get access Russell F. Weigley Temple University, Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 753–754, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079689 Published: 01 1991
Abstract The Indigenous Sami people traditionally live in what is now Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Russia. A crucial matter for peoples, including the living that of recognition their land rights access to traditional lands. This article’s aim present analyse recent case law developments Sweden relate protection rights, specifically Girjas Talma cases, through legal-scientific textual analyses relevant legal literature. Both cases concern reindeer herding Swedish state as defendant. These...
Abstract This Special Section explores the interplay between Indigenous peoples, industry, and state in five proposed active mining projects Canada Sweden. The overall aim is to identify factors shaping quality of community-industry-state interactions mine development. An ambition underlying research develop knowledge help manage related land-use conflicts Sweden by drawing on Canadian comparisons experience. paper synthesizes comparative that has been conducted across jurisdictions three...