Sörlin, Sverker. “Staying Open: Shaping Environmental History in Sweden.” Global Environment: A Journal of Transdisciplinary History 19, no. 1 (2026): 243–57.
As historians we tend to agree that historical change occurs in a complex interaction of broad, gradual processes on the one hand, and, on the other, local circumstances that play out across shorter time scales, with chance involved. In retrospect, though, even the chance events seem to form a pattern. In my view at least, such was the official arrival of environmental history in Sweden, when I was appointed the first professor of the subject in 1993 at Umeå University, also to my knowledge the first designated chair in Scandinavia. (From the article)
A collaboration between the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) and The White Horse Press, “Notes from the Icehouse” is a series of reflections published in each issue of Global Environment: A Journal of Transdisciplinary History.
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