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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2020

Peder Anker
Peder Anker
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New York University
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The Power of the Periphery
How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World
 , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020
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Contents

  1. List of Figures

  2. Acknowledgments

  3. “We Are As Gods”

  4. 1The Power of the Periphery

    1. The Allure of Life Lost

    2. Chasing Paradise

    3. The Return to the Wild

    4. Learning from the People of Swat

    5. The Fisherman-Peasant

  5. 2The Ecologists

    1. The High Mountain Ecology Research Station

    2. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

    3. The First Lectures in Ecology by Biologists

    4. International Biological Program

    5. A Steady-State Nation

  6. 3The Ecophilosophers

    1. True Weltanschauung

    2. The Last Messiah

    3. The Nation’s Philosopher

    4. Mastering the Mountains

    5. The Mardøla Demonstrations

    6. The Ecophilosophy Group

  7. 4The Deep Ecologists

    1. Environmental Orientalism and the Critique of the West

    2. The Referendum on the European Community

    3. Deep Ecology in Bucharest

    4. Marxist Attack

  8. 5Environmental Studies

    1. Ecology, Community, and Lifestyle

    2. The Case against Science

    3. Education in Ecological Dogmatism

  9. 6The Call for a New Ecoreligion

    1. Deep Ecology and Religion

    2. Ecological Debate within the Church

    3. Ecoreligion on the Syllabus

    4. The Greening of the Church

  10. 7The Sustainable Society

    1. The Limits to Growth Report

    2. The Call for a Golden Age in Equilibrium

    3. Leading the Sustainable Effort

    4. The Sustainable Society in Bucharest

    5. The Limits to Growth in Norway

    6. The Resource Policy Group

  11. 8The Acid Rain Debate

    1. Power-Socialism and the Social Function of Science

    2. The Power-Socialism of the Labor Party

    3. The Case against Environmentalism

    4. Labor Party Environmentalism

    5. The Acid Rain Debate

  12. 9Our Common Future

    1. The Alta Demonstrations

    2. The End of Deep Ecology in Norway

    3. Deep Ecology Goes Global

    4. Our Common Future

    5. The World’s “Pioneer Country”

    6. A Sustainable Climate

  13. The Alternative Nation

  14. Bibliography

  15. Index

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