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Marius Warg Næss
- Researcher —
- Social anthropologist
Phonenumber: 90721907
E-mail: marius.naess@niku.no
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Department:
- High North —
- Nordområde
Marius Warg Næss is a researcher at the High North Department. He has a PhD in anthropology from UiT – the Arctic University of Norway. In 2022 he was granted ERC Consolidator Grant for ERC-prosjektet “From small-scale cooperative herding groups to nomadic empires – a cross-cultural approach (Complexity)”.
Marius works interdisciplinary at the intersection of social science and ecology. His primary focus is on natural resources use and how developing adaptive management systems require the integration of knowledge from the social and natural sciences. He has broad experience working both quantitatively and qualitatively with particular focus on Saami reindeer husbandry and nomadic pastoralists in Tibet. Specifically, he has been concerned with understanding how: (1) labour investment and cooperation influence pastoral production; (2) pastoral decision-making affects herd dynamics; and (3) nomadic pastoralists manage environmental risk.
More recently, he has been using a comparative approach to investigate: (1) the rationale and consequences of governmental management policies; (2) the effects of climate change; and (3) how governmental management policies may both exacerbate the negative effects of climate change and transform traditional social institutions.
Key qualifications:
High North, Tibet, nomadic pastoralism, reindeer husbandry, Tibetan pastoralism, risk management, adaptation, labour and production, mobility/land use, cooperation and conflict, game theory, human ecology, human behavioural ecology, climate change, policy, social organisation, quantitative and qualitative method, interdisciplinary approaches, traditional knowledge, theoretical modelling.
Næss has previously worked as a postdoctoral fellow/researcher at the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo.
Selected publications from Cristin:
Consequences of COVID-19 on the Reindeer Husbandry in Norway: a Pilot Study Among Management Staff and Herders
Fisktjønmo, Guro Hole; Næss, Marius Warg.
- 2022
- Human Ecology
- Academic article
Implications of norms and knowledge in customary reindeer herding units for resource governance
Horstkotte, Tim; Heikkinen, Hannu I.; Næss, Marius Warg; Landauer, Mia; Forbes, Bruce C.; Risvoll, Camilla.
- 2022
- Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
The Relative Importance of “Cooperative Context” and Kinship in Structuring Cooperative Behavior: A Comparative Study of Saami Reindeer Herders
Fisktjønmo, Guro Lovise Hole; Næss, Marius Warg; Bårdsen, Bård-Jørgen.
- 2021
- Human Nature. An interdisciplinary biosocial perspective
- Academic article
Collaborative foundations of herding: The formation of cooperative groups among Tibetan pastoralists
Næss, Marius Warg.
- 2021
- Journal of Arid Environments
- Academic article
The Sami cooperative herding group: the siida system from past to present
Næss, Marius Warg; Fisktjønmo, Guro Lovise Hole; Bårdsen, Bård-Jørgen.
- 2021
- Acta Borealia
- Academic article
Cultural Group Selection and the Evolution of Reindeer Herding in Norway
Næss, Marius Warg.
- 2020
- Human Ecology
- Academic article
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