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

Peder Anker

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The Power of the Periphery

How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World

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Peder Anker, New York University

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: May 2020
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781108763851
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108763851
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: History of Science and Technology, Environmental History, History, Regional History after 1500
Series:: Studies in Environment and History

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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, 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.

‘In this exhilarating romp through history, Peder Anker delivers us the essential key to understanding our present crisis and a magisterial exploration of the catastrophic consequences of our all-too-human attempts to create paradise on Earth.'

Jimena Canales - historian of science and author of The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed our Understanding of Time and A Tenth of a Second: A History

‘With clarity, empathy and yet a sharp criticality, Peder Anker captures the long train of modern Norwegian ecological thought. Engaging activists from Thor Heyerdahl to Arne Naess, Anker shows how nationalism, internationalism, idealism, positivism and holism collided. Here is a rich, clear-eyed history of how the Norwegians reshaped modern ecological thought, successes and failures included. A terrific book.'

Peter Galison - Harvard University

‘Peder Anker's thought-provoking perspective highlights how Norway came to be an exporter of environmental values and of the concept of sustainability – in spite of limited adherence to such values at home.'

Jorgen Randers - BI Norwegian Business School

‘Peder Anker has written a fascinating story about how Norwegian scholar-activists exploited the ‘power of the periphery' to showcase Norway as an alternative environmentally-sound nation compared with the rest of the world. This book is an original contribution to the history of global environmentalism in general.'

Terje Tvedt - University of Bergen

‘… this volume is an important contribution to our knowledge about environmental developments of the past century,demonstrating a small nation’s place in the age of globalization.’

Elena Kochetkova Source: Technology and Culture

'… a very readable book, which is highly informative, clear and at the same time very easy to read due to its high source density in combination with extensive contextualization.'

Fabian Zimmer Source: translated from H-Soz-Kult

‘… Anker provides a thorough and engaging history of envi-ronmental thought and action in this formative period …’

Jenna M. Coughlin Source: Scandinavian Studies

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How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World

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The Power of the Periphery
pp i-i

Studies in Environment and History - Series page
pp ii-ii

The Power of the Periphery - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Epigraph
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Figures
pp ix-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xiv

“We Are As Gods”
pp 1-8

1 - The Power of the Periphery
pp 9-29

2 - The Ecologists
pp 30-44

3 - The Ecophilosophers
pp 45-74

4 - The Deep Ecologists
pp 75-91

5 - Environmental Studies
pp 92-117

6 - The Call for a New Ecoreligion
pp 118-142

7 - The Sustainable Society
pp 143-173

8 - The Acid Rain Debate
pp 174-201

9 - Our Common Future
pp 202-229

The Alternative Nation
pp 230-240

Bibliography
pp 241-278

Index
pp 279-285

Studies in Environment and History (continued from page ii) - Series page
pp 286-288

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