LEADER 03015nam 22004693a 450 001 9910743679703321 005 20240219214953.0 010 $a9781912186778 010 $a1912186772 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.3197/63824846758018.book 035 $a(CKB)28302466100041 035 $a(ScCtBLL)86b86324-6756-470f-924b-c8241dc520e6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31281623 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31281623 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928302466100041 100 $a20231108i20232023 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aGreen Development or Greenwashing? $eEnvironmental Histories of Finland /$fViktor Pál, Tuomas Räsänen 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cThe White Horse Press,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (260 pages) 311 08$a9781912186761 311 08$a1912186764 330 $aFinland 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reader with many stories of long-lasting negative environmental impacts in and around Finland: old-growth forests have been replaced by intensive forest farming for lumber and pulp industries; most wetlands have been drained for agriculture, forest cultivation and peat extraction; wild animal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. 606 $aEnvironmental protection 606 $aNature 607 $aScandinavia$vHistory 615 0$aEnvironmental protection. 615 0$aNature 676 $a363.70094897 702 $aPál$b Viktor 702 $aRäsänen$b Tuomas 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910743679703321 996 $aGreen Development or Greenwashing?$93875596 997 $aUNINA