1st Edition

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

Edited By E. C. H. Keskitalo Copyright 2025
230 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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’. Drawing on historical and present-day examples and case studies from Northern Europe, this book critically examines the ways in which the use of such dichotomies can be transcended to... Read more

1. Introduction

E. C. H. Keskitalo

 

2. 10,000 Years of Cultural Encounters: Understanding Northern Landscaspes through allemannsretten, friluftsliv and Outdoor Recreation Moralities 

Brynhild Granås

 

3. A Linguistically Outrageous Expression: The Semantic Evolution of Nature Protection in Norwegian Statutory Law from 1910 to 2009 

Eivind Junker

 

4. Schematic Land-use Binaries as a Challenge for Multivalued Forest Cultures in Rural Finland.

Emmi Salmivuori

 

5. Land, Nature and Culture in Finnish Lapland

Monica Tennberg

 

6. Approaching Rewilding from Different National Historical Contexts: A Cultural Rather than Natural Question 

E. C. H. Keskitalo and E. Andersson

 

7. Competing Translations of Environmental Knowledge: Case Viinivaara Groundwater Extraction Plans

Olli Haanpää

 

8. Blurring Binaries and Environmental Management Practices from Agricultural Productivism to TechnoGarden Fixes

Hannu I. Heikkinen, Olli Haanpää, Karoliina Kikuchi, Simo Sarkki, Anna Ruohonen, Élise Lépy and Aleksi Räsänen

 

9. Experiencing Untouched Nature in the Great Indoors: On the Production of Wilderness in Arctic Resort Enclaves

Dorothee Bohn

 

10. Practising Degrowth as a Business? Transcending Binaries 

Iana Nesterova and Jens Rennstam

 

11. Conclusion

E. C. H. Keskitalo

Biography

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.