The Nordic Environments

Author : Reinhard Hennig
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498561918
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment written by Reinhard Hennig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many contemporary environmental risks and global environmental changes occurring today are unprecedented in the history of human life on earth. However, the images and narratives through which humans relate to these phenomena are built on existing cultural tropes and narrative models. Cultural, social, and historical contexts strongly influence how we construct images and narratives of nature and the environment. It is therefore highly important to study such narratives in works of literature, film, and other forms of cultural expression in relation to the specific circumstances from which they arise. Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment is the first English language anthology that presents ecocritical research on northern European literatures and cultures. The contributors examine specifically Nordic narratives of nature and the environment, with a focus on the cultures and literatures of the modern northern European countries Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, including Sápmi, which is the land traditionally inhabited by the indigenous Sami people. Covering northern European literatures and cultures over a period of more than two centuries, this anthology provides substantial insights into both old and new narratives of nature and the environment as well as intertextual relations, the variety of cultural traditions, and current discourses connected to the Nordic environmental imagination. Case studies relating to works of literature, film, and other media shed new light on the role of culture, history and society in the formation of narratives of nature and the environment, and offer a comprehensive and multi-faceted overview of the most recent ecocritical research in Scandinavian studies.

Author : Marko Joas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429811012
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nordic Environments written by Marko Joas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume features 13 contributors with expertise in social science and environmental research who have brought together comparative 12 articles which study the connection between humanity and nature, focusing on comparisons between the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. They are among the most homogeneous and hence most comparable societies in Europe. The articles reflect the need for environmental and political change recognised by social scientists and political scientists across the Nordic countries, with an emphasis on ecological modernisation. They first consider conceptions of the environment, before comparing both between and within these countries. The traditions and institutions presented in the volume reflect the comprehensiveness of the approaches used within the field in the Nordic countries.

Author : Marko Joas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138336339
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nordic Environments written by Marko Joas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume features 13 contributors with expertise in social science and environmental research who have brought together comparative 12 articles which study the connection between humanity and nature, focusing on comparisons between the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. They are among the most homogeneous and hence most comparable societies in Europe. The articles reflect the need for environmental and political change recognised by social scientists and political scientists across the Nordic countries, with an emphasis on ecological modernisation. They first consider conceptions of the environment, before comparing both between and within these countries. The traditions and institutions presented in the volume reflect the comprehensiveness of the approaches used within the field in the Nordic countries.

Author : Björk, Olle
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9289344679
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making the environment count written by Björk, Olle and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2013, the Nordic Ministers for the Environment decided to strenghten the measurement of green estimates of welfare and socio-economic developments. The report Making the Environment Count is describing how statistics on the environment and the economy thorugh the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts can be used to enable cross-sectorial analysis. The report proposes indicators that can be compiled annually in a Nordic context through existing statistics linking economic statistics to environmental statistics.

Author : Claes Bernes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nordic Environment written by Claes Bernes and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fråne, Anna
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9289369841
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards sustainable consumption in the Nordic Region written by Fråne, Anna and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available online: https://pub.norden.org/nord2021-024/ This analysis sheds light on the Nordic region's environmental "spillover effect" as a result of our consumption, as well as other social effects.The results indicate that in general consumption-based emissions reveals that the global emissions continue to grow with transport as the biggest source to consumption-based CO2-e emissions from households in the Nordic countries, followed by food and housing. Also, there is a need for better due diligence, transparency and monitoring. Based on reported CO2-e intensities several shifts are suggested to be supported by policy instruments: 1. Shift from beef to other meat consumption. 2. Shift from meat to vegetables. 3. Reduce food waste. 4. Reduce air travel. 5. Shift from private cars to public transportation and soft mobility. 6. Prolong life of goods. 7. Respect human rights. 8. Reduce overall private consumption.

Author : Nordiska Ministerrådet
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9289316810
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening of phenolic substances in the Nordic environments written by Nordiska Ministerrådet and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hannu Braunschweiler
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9789289304719
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fate and Effects of Chemicals in the Nordic Environments Related to the Use of Biocides written by Hannu Braunschweiler and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiivistelmä. - Sammandrag.

Author : Ida Marie Neergaard
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9289361700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nordic Youth As Sustainable Changemakers: written by Ida Marie Neergaard and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over the world young people are protesting for action on climatechange and sustainable consumption. In the Nordic countries, the youth are leading the way as sustainable changemakers with ambitious, radical,and urgent demands to politicians and decision-makers to take action now.This analysis looks at youth in the Nordic countries, aged 13-30, and their concerns, motivation, inspiration, actions, approaches, recommendations, and demands in relation to SDG12 on Sustainable Consumption and Production.

Author : Nina Witoszek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351765620
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Modernity written by Nina Witoszek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies, with high economic productivity and quality of life. But they are also an enigma in a cultural-evolutionary sense: though by no means following the same socio-economic formula, they are all cases of a "non-hubristic", socially sustainable modernity that puzzles outside observers. Using Nordic welfare states as its laboratory, Sustainable Modernity combines evolutionary and socio-cultural perspectives to illuminate the mainsprings of what the authors call the "well-being society". The main contention is that the Nordic uniqueness is not merely the outcome of one particular set of historical institutional or political arrangements, or sheer historical luck; rather, the high welfare creation inherent in the Nordic model has been predicated on a long and durable tradition of social cooperation, which has interacted with global competitive forces. Hence the socially sustainable Nordic modernity should be approached as an integrated and tightly orchestrated ecosystem based on a complex interplay of cooperative and competitive strategies within and across several domains: normative-cultural, socio-political and redistributive. The key question is: Can the Nordic countries uphold the balance of competition and cooperation and reproduce their resilience in the age of globalization, cultural collisions, the digital economy, the fragmentation of the work/life division, and often intrusive EU regulation? With contributors providing insights from the humanities, the social sciences and evolutionary science, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of political science, sociology, history, institutional economics, Nordic studies and human evolution studies.