The forestry and reindeer herding sectors utilize the same land in northern Sweden, and adversely affect each other's productivity. The common pool resource character of this situation has made it difficult to find ways to resolve conflicts that could threaten the two sectors' continued...

A new EU Forest Strategy for 2030 was announced by the European Commission in July 2021. The objective for our study was to analyze the Strategy in relation to its set boundary conditions namely, that it should be based on the best available scientific knowledge and respect the EU principle of...

This thesis addresses an example of multiple-use commons problems: the case of land use for forestry and reindeer husbandry. Forestry use land for industrial purposes while reindeer husbandry (practiced by the indigenous people, the Sami) use the same land for reindeer grazing. The land use...

Both the forestry sector and reindeer herders in Sweden use the forest resources, albeit for different purposes, and have adverse effects on each other. To reduce conflicts between them negotiations take place in so-called “consultationsâ€, but the institutional arrangement does not...