Nordic Landscapes
Title | Nordic Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Jones |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 660 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0816639140 |
"The first in-depth presentation of the Nordic landscapes to be published in nearly twenty years. “Norden” -- the region along the northern edge of Europe bordered by Russia and the Baltic nations to the east and by North America to the west -- is a particularly fruitful site for the examination of the ever-evolving meaning of landscape and region as place. Contributors to this work reveal how Norden’s regions and people have been defined by and against the dominant culture of Europe while at the same time their landscapes and cultures have shaped and inspired Europe’s ways of life. Together, the essays provide a much-needed picture of this culturally rich and geographically varied part of the world."--pub. desc.
New Nordic Gardens
Title | New Nordic Gardens PDF eBook |
Author | Annika Zetterman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Gardens |
ISBN | 9780500296141 |
Few people have difficulty conjuring images of modern Scandinavian design, whose influence over the past century has reached around the world. More difficult for many is imagining the quiet landscapes of the Nordic countries, which range from the flatlands of Denmark to the dramatic mountains and fjords of Norway. These majestic environments, combined with long summer days and light-poor winters, raking light and dense birch forests, have given rise to exceptionally refined examples of garden and landscape design. This survey presents the best gardens to have been produced in the region over the past ten years. Organized by themes that encapsulate the special ambience and lifestyle of the Scandinavian countries - Simplicity, Silence, Fragility, Nakedness, Attunement, Boldness, Openness and Care - each garden is presented through images and texts explaining its unique aspects and describing its particularly Scandinavian characteristics. The timelessness of Nordic design has proven itself around the world for many decades. Now it is time for the quality of its gardens and landscapes to come into the light. With 291 illustrations in colour
Afro-Nordic Landscapes
Title | Afro-Nordic Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Michael McEachrane |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 309 |
Release | 2014-04-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317685245 |
Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe challenges a view of Nordic societies as homogenously white, and as human rights champions that are so progressive that even the concept of race is deemed irrelevant to their societies. The book places African Diasporas, race and legacies of imperialism squarely in a Nordic context. How has a nation as peripheral as Iceland been shaped by an identity of being white? How do Black Norwegians challenge racially conscribed views of Norwegian nationhood? What does the history of jazz in Denmark say about the relation between its national identity and race? What is it like to be a mixed-race black Swedish woman? How have African Diasporans in Finland navigated issues of race and belonging? And what does the widespread denial of everyday racism in Nordic societies mean to Afro-Nordics? This text is a must read for anyone interested in issues of race in the Nordic region and Europe writ large. As Paul Gilroy writes in his foreword, it is a book that "should be studied with care and profit inside the Nordic countries and also outside them by the broader international readership that has been established around the study of racism and 'critical race theory'."
Landscape experiences as a cultural ecosystem service in a Nordic context
Title | Landscape experiences as a cultural ecosystem service in a Nordic context PDF eBook |
Author | Lindhjem, Henrik |
Publisher | Nordic Council of Ministers |
Total Pages | 186 |
Release | 2015-08-19 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9289342404 |
Cultural ecosystem services in the form of experiences derived from landscapes are potentially important, but often overlooked. Given the large and unprecedented landscape changes many of the Nordic countries are undergoing, there is a need to find ways of including people’s preferences and the value of landscape impacts in policy assessments and decision-making processes. The project aim has been to synthesize knowledge about the magnitude and value of landscape experiences, and investigate current practices and examples of how landscape impacts are incorporated (or not) in policy assessments and decision-making contexts in the Nordics. The literature demonstrates potentially high unaccounted welfare loss from landscape change. We find clear weaknesses in current practices, that a second phase will try to address. The project was carried out by Vista Analysis in Oslo and Department of Environmental Science at Aarhus University from 2014–15.
Nordic scenery
Title | Nordic scenery PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Nordic Council of Ministers |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9789289308724 |
Nordic
Title | Nordic PDF eBook |
Author | Magnus Nilsson |
Publisher | Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-05-09 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9780714872377 |
A personally curated selection of Magnus Nilsson’s photographs from The Nordic Cookbook, also including previously unpublished images taken during his research. Given his first camera at the age of six, celebrated Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson has been taking photographs for over twenty-five years. As part of his research for The Nordic Cookbook, Magnus travelled extensively throughout the Nordic countries, not only collecting recipes but also photographing the landscape, food and people. Nordic: A Photographic Essay of Landscapes, Food and People accompanies a travelling exhibition of his work.
The Nordic Wave in Place Branding
Title | The Nordic Wave in Place Branding PDF eBook |
Author | Cecilia Cassinger |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1788974328 |
The widespread international interest in the Nordic region and the mobility of Nordic brand imaginaries call for more research into the global relevance of Nordic place-branding practices. This book offers a timely attempt to unpack the specificity of the Nordic in regard to place branding by gathering different transdisciplinary accounts written by researchers in marketing, tourism, geography, communication, sociology and political science.