Tana River Case Study
Assignment 3: Methods and results I
This paper is a preliminary study of a mega project that focuses on introducing co-management of water and salmon in the Tana river, and this invariably explains why a feasibility study is selected as a method to estimate important parameters that are required to design the main project. In this light, adopting a feasibility study prior to conducting the main study, also allows the researcher to look at the viability and practicability of a co-management regime of water and salmon resources of Tana river between the Sami on the Norwegian and on the Finish-side of the Tana river valley and the public managers overseeing the natural resources in Norway and Finland.
Feasibility studies as a first step to making …show more content…
Exploring co-management as a viable alternative, offers the Sami as stakeholder a solid platform for concrete consultation and productive negotiation prior to making management decision. Moreover, co-management as opposed to public management, offers the rare opportunity of direct participation in the management of the Tana river and its salmon resources which the Sami have always wanted to experience as an aspect of Sami political and economic self-determination.
The study explores four core areas of feasibility (legal, economic, operational and technical) of co-management, but the focuses essentially is on the operational feasibility of the Sami co-managing the tana river and its resources with the public managers of water in Norway and in Finland. There is insufficient time and resources to conduct a holistic legal, economic and technical feasibility of a Sami/public institution co-management in the Tana river, this as well explains why the research focus is on the operational feasibility of how co-management of the Tana river and its resources can and will …show more content…
Norway having transferred management power of about 95% of the land area in Finmark to the Finmark Estate Board (Source), it is more likely it will embrace a tri-partite power sharing arrangement with the Sami compared to Finland which has never done or experimented anything close to that in the
This paper is a preliminary study of a mega project that focuses on introducing co-management of water and salmon in the Tana river, and this invariably explains why a feasibility study is selected as a method to estimate important parameters that are required to design the main project. In this light, adopting a feasibility study prior to conducting the main study, also allows the researcher to look at the viability and practicability of a co-management regime of water and salmon resources of Tana river between the Sami on the Norwegian and on the Finish-side of the Tana river valley and the public managers overseeing the natural resources in Norway and Finland.
Feasibility studies as a first step to making …show more content…
Exploring co-management as a viable alternative, offers the Sami as stakeholder a solid platform for concrete consultation and productive negotiation prior to making management decision. Moreover, co-management as opposed to public management, offers the rare opportunity of direct participation in the management of the Tana river and its salmon resources which the Sami have always wanted to experience as an aspect of Sami political and economic self-determination.
The study explores four core areas of feasibility (legal, economic, operational and technical) of co-management, but the focuses essentially is on the operational feasibility of the Sami co-managing the tana river and its resources with the public managers of water in Norway and in Finland. There is insufficient time and resources to conduct a holistic legal, economic and technical feasibility of a Sami/public institution co-management in the Tana river, this as well explains why the research focus is on the operational feasibility of how co-management of the Tana river and its resources can and will …show more content…
Norway having transferred management power of about 95% of the land area in Finmark to the Finmark Estate Board (Source), it is more likely it will embrace a tri-partite power sharing arrangement with the Sami compared to Finland which has never done or experimented anything close to that in the