Research, Policy and Practice
Table 3 Summary of tentative trade-offs related to scenarios
Scenario A) Traditional reindeer herding | Scenario C) Compensated ecosystem service producer |
|---|---|
Gainers: | Gainers: |
-Pastoralist's home economics | -Manageability of predator and semi-domesticated reindeer |
-Predator populations (easy prey) | -Continuing local herding communities |
-Semi-domesticated reindeer's instincts and survivability (continuous predation pressure) | -Incentivized motive for reindeer management |
| Â | -Natural grazing pressure simulations |
Losers: | Losers: |
-State (high compensations costs) | -State (high costs of incentives) |
-Traditional food for humans production motive | -Predator watching enterprises (payments for herders for increasing predation) |
-Motive for reindeer management (changes to searching of killed reindeer) | -Traditional food for humans production motive |
-Predators hunting instinct and skills | -Natural dynamics of hunting pressure |
Scenario B) Reindeer farming | Scenario D) Transformed professions |
Gainers: | Gainers: |
-Traditional food for humans production motive | -Manageability, stability and commodification of local environment |
-Agricultural investment economy (rising costs of production, but steady harvest) | -Wild forest reindeer population |
| Â | -Local and semi-local conformists (educated, probably young opportunists) |
| Â | -Tourism |
| Â | -Municipal economies |
Losers: | Losers: |
-Domesticated reindeer meat quality | -Traditionalists (local conservatives not willing for modern occupations) |
-Domesticated reindeer's instincts and survivability | -Nature's uncontrolled dynamics |
-Predator populations (loss of easy prey) | -Traditional local culture and communities |
-Reindeer herders' socio-cultural traditions and freedom of choice regarding their livelihood. | Â |