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The Power of the Periphery What is the source of Norway’s culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists ofthelatetwentiethcentury,PederAnkerexamineshowtheyportrayed theircountryasaplaceofenvironmentalstabilityinaworldfilledwith tension.Incontrastwithsocietiesdirtiedbythehotandcoldwarsofthe 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 macro- cosm. 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 worldatthe EarthSummit inRio deJaneiro in1992. Thistitle isalso availableasOpenAccessonCambridgeCore. is Associate Professor at The Gallatin School of Indi- vidualized Study, New York University. He is also Professor II in History of Science at the University of Oslo. He is on Twitter @pederanker. Studies inEnvironment and History Editors J.R.McNeill,GeorgetownUniversity LingZhang,BostonCollege EditorsEmeriti AlfredW.Crosby,UniversityofTexasatAustin EdmundP.Russell,CarnegieMellonUniversity DonaldWorster,UniversityofKansas OtherBooksintheSeries PederAnkerThePowerofthePeriphery:HowNorwayBecamean EnvironmentalPioneerfortheWorld DavidMoonTheAmericanSteppes:TheUnexpectedRussianRootsofGreat PlainsAgriculture,1870s–1930s JamesL.A.Webb,Jr.TheGutsoftheMatter:AGlobalEnvironmentalHistoryof HumanWasteandInfectiousIntestinalDisease MayaK.PetersonPipeDreams:WaterandEmpireinCentralAsia’sAral SeaBasin ThomasM.WickmanSnowshoeCountry:AnEnvironmentalandCultural HistoryofWinterintheEarlyAmericanNortheast DebjaniBhattacharyyaEmpireandEcologyintheBengalDelta:TheMaking ofCalcutta ChrisCourtneyTheNatureofDisasterinChina:The1931YangziRiverFlood DagomarDegrootTheFrigidGoldenAge:ClimateChange,theLittleIceAge, andtheDutchRepublic,1560–1720 EdmundRussellGreyhoundNation:ACoevolutionaryHistoryofEngland, 1200–1900 TimothyJ.LeCainTheMatterofHistory:HowThingsCreatethePast LingZhangTheRiver,thePlain,andtheState:AnEnvironmentalDrama inNorthernSongChina,1048–1128 AbrahamH.GibsonFeralAnimalsintheAmericanSouth:AnEvolutionary History AndyBrunoTheNatureofSovietPower:AnArcticEnvironmentalHistory DavidA.BelloAcrossForest,Steppe,andMountain:Environment,Identity, andEmpireinQingChina’sBorderlands ErikLoomisEmpireofTimber:LaborUnionsandthePacificNorthwestForests PeterThorsheimWasteintoWeapons:RecyclinginBritainduringtheSecond WorldWar (continuedafterindex) The Power of the Periphery How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World PEDER ANKER NewYorkUniversity UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge28,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. 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RolfJacobsen,“TheAlternativeNation” Contents List of Figures pageix Acknowledgments xi “We Are As Gods” 1 1 ThePower of the Periphery 9 TheAllureofLifeLost 9 ChasingParadise 14 TheReturntotheWild 20 LearningfromthePeopleofSwat 23 TheFisherman-Peasant 26 2 TheEcologists 30 TheHighMountainEcologyResearchStation 30 RachelCarson’sSilentSpring 32 TheFirstLecturesinEcologybyBiologists 34 InternationalBiologicalProgram 37 ASteady-StateNation 40 3 TheEcophilosophers 45 TrueWeltanschauung 45 TheLastMessiah 50 TheNation’sPhilosopher 53 MasteringtheMountains 59 TheMardølaDemonstrations 63 TheEcophilosophyGroup 69 4 TheDeep Ecologists 75 EnvironmentalOrientalismandtheCritiqueoftheWest 75 TheReferendumontheEuropeanCommunity 79 vii viii Contents DeepEcologyinBucharest 85 MarxistAttack 88 5 Environmental Studies 92 Ecology,Community,andLifestyle 94 TheCaseagainstScience 101 EducationinEcologicalDogmatism 106 6 TheCallfor a New Ecoreligion 118 DeepEcologyandReligion 120 EcologicalDebatewithintheChurch 126 EcoreligionontheSyllabus 133 TheGreeningoftheChurch 137 7 TheSustainableSociety 143 TheLimitstoGrowthReport 144 TheCallforaGoldenAgeinEquilibrium 149 LeadingtheSustainableEffort 153 TheSustainableSocietyinBucharest 159 TheLimitstoGrowthinNorway 165 TheResourcePolicyGroup 169 8 TheAcid Rain Debate 174 Power-SocialismandtheSocialFunctionofScience 176 ThePower-SocialismoftheLaborParty 182 TheCaseagainstEnvironmentalism 185 LaborPartyEnvironmentalism 188 TheAcidRainDebate 195 9 Our Common Future 202 TheAltaDemonstrations 203 TheEndofDeepEcologyinNorway 206 DeepEcologyGoesGlobal 210 OurCommonFuture 216 TheWorld’s“PioneerCountry” 220 ASustainableClimate 225 TheAlternativeNation 230 Bibliography 241 Index 279
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