Resources

Resources, background information, and scholarly articles related to SápmiDem key themes

Resurssat, duogašmateriála ja dieđalaš artihkkalat SápmiDem guovddáš fáttáin

Publications and interviews by SápmiDem team members:

Meaghan Gordon,Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Rasmus Kløcker Larsen et al. 2025. Human rights and environmental due diligence in the Green Transition: toward greater accountability amid geopolitical and sustainability challenges. Policy brief. Mistra Geopolitics. 

Vihreä siirtymä on saamelaisille vihreää kolonialismia – Tuore tutkimushanke yrittää löytää keinoja oikeudenmukaisempaan päätöksentekoon. Rauna Kuokkasen haastattelu. Maailman kuvalehti 11.12.2024

Rauna Kuokkanen: What does Sámi democractic engagement in energy transition look like? EXALT Podcast 29 Nov. 2024.

Rasmus Kløcker Larsen et al. 2024. G20’s green transition depends on protecting Indigenous rights. Stockholm Environment Institute.

Inga, Katarina, Peter M. Rudberg, and Rasmus Kløcker Larsen. 2024. “Sámi trust in hydropower governance: A survey study.” Environmental Science & Policy 162: 103918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103918.

Rauna Kuokkanen. 2023. “Are Reindeer the New Buffalo? Climate Change, the Green Shift, and Manifest Destiny in Sápmi.” Meridians 22 (1): 11-33. https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10220458.

Kaisa Raitio & Annette Löf. 2023. Rättighetsbaserad dialog – nödvändig del i en rättvis grön omställning. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Rasmus Kløcker Larsen. 2023. EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act fails to protect Sámi rights – here’s how to strengthen it. Stockholm Environment Institute.

SEI’s Now & Then Podcast: green transition or green colonialism? 2023. Stockholm Environment Institute.

Interview with Annette Löf. Reindeer vs. mines. The European Correspondent, 22.9.2025.
Published also in: The Barents Observer, Dagens ETC, Observatorio Artico

Other relevant resources:

Amnesty International. “Just transition or ‘green colonialism’?” Amnesty International Finland, Norway and Sweden Report January 31, 2025.

Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2025. Country engagement mission to Norway. Technical Advisory Note of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Vuostebiegga Norggas ja Ávjovári Luonddugáhttenlihttu, 2020. BIEGGAFÁPMU VAI BOAZODOALLU? FÁDDÁRAPORTA 3 (Oanehis veršuvdna)

Scheinin, Martin. 2024. Kansainväliset alkuperäiskansaoikeudet ja niiden toteutuminen Suomessa. Selvitys saamelaisten totuus- ja sovintokomissiolle

Scheinen, Martin, 2024. Riikkaidgaskasaš eamiálbmotvuoigatvuođat ja daid ollašuvvan Suomas. Čielggadeapmi sámiid duohtavuohta- ja soabadankomišuvdnii

Ethical guidelines for research involving the Sámi people in Finland. 2024. The guidelines areavailable in Finnish, North, Inari, and Skolt Sámi, and English.

Thora M. Herrmann et al. 2023. Comprehensive Policy-Brief to the EU Commission: Roadmap to Decolonial Arctic Research. University of Oulu, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, The Indigenous Voices (IVO) research group – Álgoálbmogii jienat, Arctic University of Norway UiT, Saami Council. Áltá – Kárášjohka – Leipzig – Oulu. https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.400.

Scholarly articles on the energy transition in Sápmi:

Henrikke Sæthre Ellingsen. 2024. “The Temporal-Political Dimensions of Green Colonialism through Wind Power Development at Fosen, Norway.” Human Arenas. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-024-00450-1.

Mósesdóttir, Lilja. 2024. “Energy (in)justice in the green energy transition. The case of Fosen wind farms in Norway.” Technology in Society 77: 102563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102563.

Åsa Össbo. 2023. “Back to Square One. Green Sacrifice Zones in Sápmi and Swedish Policy Responses to Energy Emergencies.” Arctic Review on Law and Politics 14: 112–34. https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v14.5082

Fjellheim, Eva Maria. 2023. ““You Can Kill Us with Dialogue:” Critical Perspectives on Wind Energy Development in a Nordic-Saami Green Colonial Context.” Human Rights Review 24 (1): 25-51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-023-00678-4.

Fjellheim, Eva Maria. 2023. “Wind Energy on Trial in Saepmie: Epistemic Controversies and Strategic Ignorance in Norway’s Green Energy Transition.” Arctic Review on Law and Politics 14: 140–168. https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v14.5586.

Korsnes, Marius, Loewen Bradley, Dale Ragnhild Freng, Steen Markus, and Tomas Moe Skjølsvold. 2023. “Paradoxes of Norway’s energy transition: controversies and justice.” Climate Policy 23 (9): 1132-1150. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2169238.

Ramasar, Vasna, Henner Busch, Eric Brandstedt, and Krisjanis Rudus. 2022. “When energy justice is contested: A systematic review of a decade of research on Sweden’s conflicted energy landscape.” Energy Research & Social Science 94: 102862. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102862.

Broderstad, Else Grete. 2021. “International law, state compliance and wind power.” In Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources and Governance. Agencies and Interactions, edited by Monica Tennberg, Else Grete Broderstad, Hans-Kristian Hernes and Lars Elenius, 16-38. Routledge.

Normann, Susanne. 2021. “Green colonialism in the Nordic context: Exploring Southern Saami representations of wind energy development.” Journal of Community Psychology 49 (1): 77-94. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22422.

Cambou, Dorothee. 2020. “Uncovering Injustices in the Green Transition: Sámi Rights in the Development of Wind Energy in Sweden.” Arctic Review on Law and Politics 11: 310-33. https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v11.2293.

Kløcker Larsen, Rasmus, and Kaisa Raitio. 2019. “Implementing the State Duty to Consult in Land and Resource Decisions: Perspectives from Sami Communities and Swedish State Officials.” Arctic Review on Law and Politics 10: 4-23. https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v10.1323.

Szpak, Agnieszka. 2019. “Relocation of Kiruna and construction of the Markbygden wind farm and the Saami rights.” Polar Science 22: 100479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2019.09.001.

Persson, Sofia, David Harnesk, and Mine Islar. 2017. “What local people? Examining the Gállok mining conflict and the rights of the Sámi population in terms of justice and power.” Geoforum 86: 20-29. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.08.009.