Significance of Sámi Rights

Dorothée Cambou is Assistant Professor of sustainability science at the Faculty of Law and HELSUS at the University of Helsinki. Her research examines international law and human rights, including the rights of Indigenous peoples, environmental and social justice issues linked with the governance of lands in the Arctic and the Global South. She is the current chair of the Nordic Network for Sámi and Indigenous Peoples Law (NORSIL). Currently, she also leads several research initiatives, including a project concerning the responsibilities of business to respect the rights of Indigenous peoples in the green transition and a network project on ‘the implementation of the rights of the Indigenous Sámi people as a means to achieve inclusive and sustainable development in the Nordic countries’, financed by the Nordic Research Council. The present volume is an outcome of the latter project.Øyvind Ravna is Professor of Law (Dr. Juris eq. to PhD, 2008). He is also the head of the research group of Sámi and Indigenous law at UIT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø; the head of the GoSápmi research project; the editor of Arctic Review on Law and Politics; and Adjunct Professor at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Kautokeino, Norway. His research fields include property law, legal history, human rights and indigenous people’s law.

• 1 The significance of Sámi rights in the Nordic countries – An introductionDorothée Cambou & Øvind Ravna2 The relevance of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to vibrant, viable and sustainable Sámi communitiesMattias Åhrén3 The survey of property rights in Sámi areas of Norway - With focus on the survey of the Karasjok caseØyvind Ravna4 Indigenous peoples’ right to fish: Recent recognition of Sámi rights in Finland through civil disobedience and criminal trialMartin Scheinin5 The significance of the Fosen decision for protecting the cultural rights of the Sámi Indigenous people in the green transitionDorothée Cambou6 The interplay of politics and jurisprudence in the Girjas court caseEivind Torp7 The prohibition to weaken the Sámi culture in international law and Finnish environmental legislationLeena Heinämäki8 The implementation of Sámi land rights in the Swedish Forestry ActMalin Brännström9 Navigating conservation currents: conditions for Sámi agency in collaborative governance and management modelsElsa Reimersona & Linn Flodén10 A human rights-based approach to Sámi statistics in NorwayPeter Dawson11 Rendering the invisible visible: Sámi rights and data governanceTamara Krawchenko & Chris McDonald12 Sámi rights and sustainability in early childhood education and care: Sustainability in everyday practices in Norwegian kindergartensIngvild Åmot & Monica Bjerklund13 Sámi rights in the sustainable transition – Concluding remarksChristina Allard