The White Horse Press
Green Development or Greenwashing?: Environmental Histories of Finland
- Viktor Pál(editor)
- Tuomas Räsänen(editor)
- Mikko Saikku(editor)
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| Title | Green Development or Greenwashing? |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Environmental Histories of Finland |
| Contributor | Viktor Pál(editor) |
| Tuomas Räsänen(editor) | |
| Mikko Saikku(editor) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3197/63824846758018.book |
| Landing page | https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2023/03/03/pal/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ |
| Copyright | The White Horse Press |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Publication place | Winwick, Cambridgeshire, UK |
| Published on | 2023-10-01 |
| ISBN | 978-1-912186-76-1 (Paperback) |
| 978-1-912186-77-8 (PDF) | |
| Short abstract | Authors in this volume argue that Finland, similarly to Denmark, Norway and Sweden, has evolved into a green superpower at the cost of considerable environmental problems. Ironically, Finland’s current leading position in sustainable development has been built on the heavy use of natural resources and by sacrificing ecosystem health. |
| Long abstract | Finland has often been labelled a ‘green superpower’, lauded as one of the world’s cleanest and greenest countries. Nordic countries in general have tended to be idealised as ‘pristine and green’, in contrast to the rest of the rapidly contaminating world where the race for markets and profits has enormously accelerated consumption, imposing on the environment an alarming level of extraction and commerce, and a wide array of new and old forms of pollution. Environmental historians, however, can perceive that the reputed ‘greenness’ of the Nordic countries is partly an illusion. Authors in this volume argue that Finland, similarly to Denmark, Norway and Sweden, has evolved into a green superpower at the cost of considerable environmental problems. Ironically, Finland’s current leading position in sustainable development has been built on the heavy use of natural resources and by sacrificing ecosystem health. This volume thus seeks to acquaint the reader with many stories of long-lasting negative environmental impacts in and around Finland: old-growth forests have been replaced by intensive forest farming for lumber and pulp industries; most wetlands have been drained for agriculture, forest cultivation and peat extraction; wild animal populations have been decimated; and Finland today is confined to the south and west by arguably the most polluted sea in the world. There are lessons for the future to be learnt from Finland’s tendency to rest on the laurels of a positive environmental reputation built at least in part on myth. In the twenty-first century, the world badly needs less greenwashing and a truer commitment to green-ness. |
| Print length | 239 pages (xvi, 329 pages) |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Dimensions | 152 x 229 mm | 5.98" x 9.02" (Paperback) |
| Media | 26 illustrations |
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Contents
Abstracts
(pp. xi–xvi)- Viktor Pál
- Tuomas Räsänen
- Mikko Saikku
- Viktor Pál
- Tuomas Räsänen
- Mikko Saikku
- Jaana Laine
- Risto-Matti Matero
- Seija A. Neimi
- Matti O. Hannikainen
- Maria Lähteenmäki
- Oona Ilmolahti
- Outi Manninen
- Sari Stark
- Jukka Nyyssönen
- Heta Lähdesmäki
Chapter 9. All Quiet on the Eastern Front? The Finnish Army and Wildlife during World War Two
(pp. 171–196)- Mauri Soikkanen
- Simo Laakkonen
- Janne Mäkiranta
Contributors
Viktor Pál
(editor)Associate Professor at Tampere University
Associate Professor at University of Ostrava
Visiting Researcher at University of Helsinki
Viktor Pál is a Hungarian environmental historian, an associate professor at the University of Tampere and the University of Ostrava, and a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Technology and the Environment in State-socialist Hungary: An Economic History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and with Stephen Brain has co-edited the collection of essays, Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes. Myth, Propaganda, Reality (Routledge, 2019).
Tuomas Räsänen
(editor)Associate Professor of Environmental History at University of Eastern Finland
Tuomas Räsänen works as an associate professor of environmental history at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include the history of human-wild animal relationship, the history of Finnish environmentalism and the Baltic Sea marine environmental history.
Mikko Saikku
(editor)McDonnell Douglas Professor of American Studies and Director of the Helsinki Environmental Humanities Hub at University of Helsinki
Mikko Saikku is the McDonnell Douglas Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki. He is the author or editor of several internationally noted academic articles, collections and books, including This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta (University of Georgia Press, 2005) and An Unfamiliar America: Essays in American Studies (Routledge, 2021). He serves as Director of the Helsinki Environmental Humanities Hub.