The Power of the Periphery How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World

• Hoofdauteur: Anker, Peder (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Cambridge University Press 2020
• Reeks: Social Sciences
• Onderwerpen: Humanities; History; The environment; environmental history; twentieth-century European history; history of science and technology; history of Scandinavia
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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, Anker shows how their portrayal of Norway as a pristine natural environment of the periphery led to it being fashioned as an id...