Understanding Human-Nature Practices for Environmental Management

Examples from Northern Europe
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-77057-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 503 g

Reihe: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

Nature has often been understood in literature through a disjunction to human systems. This can be seen in the nature-culture binary, or even more clearly in the opposition of ‘wilderness’ to ‘civilization’.

Drawing on historical and present-day examples and case studies from Northern Europe, this book critically examines the ways in which the use of such dichotomies can be transcended to respond to sustainability challenges. Using illustrative examples, the authors demonstrate how shared histories and development of land use continue to impact multiple practices today. The book explores the prerequisites for environmental management approaches that counterpose the nature-culture binaries that are present in existing governance mechanisms.

This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental management, environmental law and policy and environmental anthropology.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keskitalo, E C H

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

'1. Introduction.  2. 10,000 Years of Cultural Encounters: Understanding Northern Landscaspes through allemannsretten, friluftsliv and Outdoor Recreation Moralities.  3. A Linguistically Outrageous Expression: The Semantic Evolution of Nature Protection in Norwegian Statutory Law from 1910 to 2009.  4. Schematic Land-use Binaries as a Challenge for Multivalued Forest Cultures in Rural Finland.  5. Land, Nature and Culture in Finnish Lapland.  6. Approaching Rewilding from Different National Historical Contexts: A Cultural Rather than Natural Question.  7. Competing Translations of Environmental Knowledge: Case Viinivaara Groundwater Extraction Plans.  8. Blurring Binaries and Environmental Management Practices from Agricultural Productivism to TechnoGarden Fixes.  9. Experiencing Untouched Nature in the Great Indoors: On the Production of Wilderness in Arctic Resort Enclaves.  10. Practising Degrowth as a Business? Transcending Binaries.  11. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

E. C. H. Keskitalo is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Geography, Umeå University, Sweden, and guest professor at the Unit for Landscape Studies at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå.