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The Founding of the Danish Environmental Movement NOAH
In 1969, the Danish environmental organization NOAH is established, following a spectacular happening at the University of Copenhagen.
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The Bishnoi: Revisiting Religious Environmentalism and Traditional Forest and Wildlife Management in the Thar Desert
This article traces how Bishnoi religious beliefs have informed environmental activism as well as present-day forest conservation and wildlife-protection strategies in the Thar Desert, India.
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A Laboratory for the Implementation of "Wilderness" in Central Europe—The Bavarian Forest National Park
The Bavarian Forest National Park, situated in South-Eastern Germany along the boundary with the Czech Republic, was established as the country’s first national park in October 1970.
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Ancestral Outdoorsmen and Historical Hikes
These Boy Scout images, particularly focused on the 1919–1925 era, demonstrate that human labor and history permeated popular American nature ideology and hiking practices at that time.
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“Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany
In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.
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The Neste War 1970–1972: The First Victory of the Budding Finnish Environmental Movement
This article studies the “Neste war,” 1970–1972, the first major victory of the environmental movement in Finland.
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“The Most Beautiful Valley in Japan”: Kamikōchi, the Japan Alps, and National Parks in Japan
Kamikōchi is the southern gateway to the Japan Alps, which in 1934 was one of the first areas in Japan to be designated a national park. This was the result of a rapid rise to prominence that followed a 1927 newspaper poll of Japanese landscapes.
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Kernkraftwerk Gösgen: In the Towering Presence of Nuclear Power
This article examines the implementation of the Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland, as well as its surrounding controversies.
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1. The Transnational Education of Petra Kelly | Petra Kelly
First chapter of Stephen Milder et al.’s virtual exhibition, Petra Kelly: Life and Legacy of a Transnational Green Activist.
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Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement
An enduring legacy of the antinuclear movement is its construction of a narrative connecting human survival to nature’s beneficence.