TY  - GEN
T1  - The power of the periphery : how Norway became an environmental pioneer for the world
T2  - Studies in environment and history.
A1  - Anker, Peder
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781108763851
AB  - 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.
OP  - 285
NO  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 May 2020).
CN  - GE190.N8 A55 2020
SN  - 9781108763851 (ebook)
SN  - 9781108477567 (hardback)
SN  - 9781108725729 (paperback)
SN  - 9781108477567
KW  - Environmentalism : Social aspects : Norway.
KW  - Environmentalism : Political aspects : Norway.
KW  - Climatic changes : Norway.
KW  - Ecology : Norway.
ER  -