Erämaa—Finnish
Erämaa—Finnish
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Mikko Saikku, explores central concepts for understanding the traditional Finnish relationship with nature and use of natural resources.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Mikko Saikku, explores central concepts for understanding the traditional Finnish relationship with nature and use of natural resources.
This film follows a filmmaker as he and his family attempt to live for a year without using oil products.
The paper highlights shortcomings in GMO public consultation practices in the European Union and in one of its member countries, Finland. Specifically, they do not serve democracy, increase consensus, enable better decisions to be made, or establish trust.
In this issue of Earth First! John Green gives an update on the campaign against the timber giant Louisiana-Pacific in the Albion River, Northern California. In addition, an anonymous EF!er responds to Huey Johnson’s editorial on hunting and spirituality, and Erkki Saro reports about the logging plans of old growth forests in Finnish Lapland.
This paper discusses the impacts of different formal and informal institutions upon the Regional Forest Programme of Southwest Finland (1997–2001).
This small collection of essays by Finnish scholars establishes the basic tenets of environmental history as a field of inquiry.
Covering a wide geographical range of European countries, the articles in this edited collection investigate urban disasters such as floods, fires, earthquakes, and epidemic diseases.
Finland first mad the switch from indigenous energy sources—fuel wood, wood refuse, and hydropower—to imported fossil fuels in the 1960s, during a hightened phase of industrialization. This article is an analysis of developments leading up to this change.
Burning cultivation of peatlands has been practised in peat-rich countries at one time or other throughout Western Europe. In these and other peat-rich countries, the inclusion of the emissions from burning cultivation could substantially alter historical carbon dioxide emission estimates.