Understanding Human-Nature Practices for Environmental Management - Examples From Northern Europe

Nature has often been understood in literature through a disjunction to human systems. This can be seen in the nature-culture binary, or even more clearly in the opposition of 'wilderness' to 'civilization'.

List of contents

'1. Introduction. 2. 10,000 Years of Cultural Encounters: Understanding Northern Landscaspes through allemannsretten, friluftsliv and Outdoor Recreation Moralities. 3. A Linguistically Outrageous Expression: The Semantic Evolution of Nature Protection in Norwegian Statutory Law from 1910 to 2009. 4. Schematic Land-use Binaries as a Challenge for Multivalued Forest Cultures in Rural Finland. 5. Land, Nature and Culture in Finnish Lapland. 6. Approaching Rewilding from Different National Historical Contexts: A Cultural Rather than Natural Question. 7. Competing Translations of Environmental Knowledge: Case Viinivaara Groundwater Extraction Plans. 8. Blurring Binaries and Environmental Management Practices from Agricultural Productivism to TechnoGarden Fixes. 9. Experiencing Untouched Nature in the Great Indoors: On the Production of Wilderness in Arctic Resort Enclaves. 10. Practising Degrowth as a Business? Transcending Binaries. 11. Conclusion.

About the author

E. C. H. Keskitalo is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Geography, Umeå University, Sweden, and guest professor at the Unit for Landscape Studies at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå.

Summary

Nature has often been understood in literature through a disjunction to human systems. This can be seen in the nature-culture binary, or even more clearly in the opposition of ‘wilderness’ to ‘civilization’.

Product details

• Authors: E. C. H. (Umea University Keskitalo
• Assisted by: E. C. H. Keskitalo (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032770574
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3277057-4
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Anthropology, Biodiversity, Environmental Management, Social impact of environmental issues, Environmental policy & protocols, Environment law, Environmental policy and protocols