<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<p>This article contributes to the debate about environmental sustainability, using the Skolt Sami conceptions of nature obligations as guides to this theme. The author’s recent research material is analysed in relation to other relevant publications and sources of environmental anthropology. Three key factors emerge: reasonableness in the use of natural resources, protection of nature, and respect for nature. Gregory Bateson’s models help to arrange these elements in relation to each other. It is argued here that respect for nature sets a scale for the conceptions of reasonableness and nature protection as the basis of environmental sustainability. The article produces questions and principles that may help put environmental sustainability into practice.</p>
</abstract>

This article contributes to the debate about environmental sustainability, using the Skolt Sami conceptions of nature obligations as guides to this theme. The author’s recent research material is analysed in relation to other relevant publications and sources of environmental anthropology. Three key factors emerge: reasonableness in the use of natural resources, protection of nature, and respect for nature. Gregory Bateson’s models help to arrange these elements in relation to each other. It is argued here that respect for nature sets a scale for the conceptions of reasonableness and nature protection as the basis of environmental sustainability. The article produces questions and principles that may help put environmental sustainability into practice.

Environmental Sustainability Generated by the Views of the Skolt Sami and Gregory Bateson

Visiting Researcher, Arctic Centre University of Lapland

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

This article contributes to the debate about environmental sustainability, using the Skolt Sami conceptions of nature obligations as guides to this theme. The...

Environmental Sustainability Generated by the Views of the Skolt Sami and Gregory Bateson

Published Online: Dec 16, 2022

Page range: 290 - 307

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2022-0023

Keywords
environmental sustainability, environmental anthropology, cognitive anthropology, Skolt Sami, Sami peoples

© 2022 Panu Itkonen, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Environmental Sustainability Generated by the Views of the Skolt Sami and Gregory Bateson

Published Online: Dec 16, 2022

Page range: 290 - 307

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2022-0023

Keywordsenvironmental sustainability, environmental anthropology, cognitive anthropology, Skolt Sami, Sami peoples

© 2022 Panu Itkonen, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
environmental sustainability, environmental anthropology, cognitive anthropology, Skolt Sami, Sami peoples