LUCSUS seminar: "Multiple forest uses and parallel land rights"

David Harnesk and Malin Brännström welcome you to a LUCSUS seminar that seeks to stimulate engagement with research on land rights and sustainability. We first introduce recent academic debates from commons research, critical property studies and environmental history that are of broader relevance to sustainability researchers. We then present and discuss two examples of research on land issues arising in contexts of multiple forest uses and parallel land rights, focusing on forestry and reindeer pastoralism (among the Indigenous Sámi people). Finally, we invite a broader discussion on research about land rights and sustainability.

David Harnesk has a thematic focus on land issues, social movements and methodology in sustainability transformations. His research is interdisciplinary and action-oriented, currently focusing on the climatic and environmental conditions of Indigenous Sámi reindeer pastoralism, and its surrounding social and political mobilisation, in Sweden and Norway.

Malin Brännström is a leading expert on Sámi land rights and forestry legislation, and has extensive experience working in contexts characterised by competing land-use interests and high levels of conflict. She recently co-authored a chapter on Sámi land rights in the research anthology “Land, Water, Thoughts – consequences of Swedish policies for the Sámi” as part of the Truth Commission for the Sami People.