Book ID: CBB330405397

The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World (2020)

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Anker, Peder Johan (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 300
Language: English

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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Review Elena Kochetkova (July 2021) Review of "The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World". Technology and Culture (pp. 941-942). unapi

Review Peder Roberts (2021) Review of "The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 635-636). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Alessandra Landi
Giovanni Carrosio
Day, Jon C.
Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume
Sagarin, Rafe
Pauchard, Aníbal
Concepts
Environmental sciences
Environmentalism
Ecology
Conservation biology
Technology and culture
Forests and forestry
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Norway
Indonesia
Poland
New Zealand
Europe
Institutions
UNESCO
United Nations
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