Anker The Power of the Periphery

How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-80446-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Environment and History

What is the source of Norway's culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Peder Anker examines how they portrayed their country as a place of environmental stability in a world filled with tension. In contrast with societies dirtied by the hot and cold wars of the twentieth century, Norway's power, they argued, lay in the pristine, ideal natural environment of the periphery. Globally, a beautiful Norway came to be contrasted with a polluted world and fashioned as an ecological microcosm for the creation of a better global macrocosm. In this innovative, interdisciplinary history, Anker explores the ways in which ecological concerns were imported via Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962, then to be exported from Norway back to the world at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anker, Peder

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The power of the periphery; 2. The ecologists; 3. The ecophilosophers; 4. The deep ecologists; 5. Environmental studies; 6. The call for a new ecoreligion; 7. The sustainable society; 8. The acid rain debate; 9. Our common future; The alternative nation.

Über Autor(innen)

Anker, Peder
Peder Anker is Associate Professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. He is also Professor II in History of Science at the University of Oslo. He is on twitter at @pederanker.