Publications
Books
Livet er best ute: Friluftslivets historie og filosofi, (Oslo: Kagge Forlag, 2022).
The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Global Design: Elsewhere Envisioned, with Mitchell Joachim and Louise Harpman, (Munich: Prestel, 2014).
Samtidshistoriske perspektiver with Magnus Gulbrandsen (et.al.), vol. 7 of Universitetet i Oslos historie, (Oslo: Unipub, 2011). I am the author of ”Den store økologiske vekkelsen som har hjemsøkt vårt land,” 103-171, 461-479.
From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design, (Baton rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010).
Chinese edition: 从包豪斯到生态建筑, published by 西方近现代建筑五书, 2013.
Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001).
Edited volumes
School of the Earth: Gallatin Reimagined in 2061, with Mitchell Joachim, (New York: Gallatin School, 2017).
Edvard Munchs Aulamalerier: Fra kontroversielt prosjekt til nasjonalskatt, with Patricia G. Berman, (Oslo: Messel Forlag, 2011).
Miljø og menneske: Kritiske perspektiver, with Tarjei Rønnow, (Oslo: Gyldendal, 2002).
Peer Reviewed Journals
“Cycles and circulation: a theme in the history of biology and medicine“, with Nick Hopwood et.al., History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43:89 (2021), 1-39.
“Deep Impact: Animal-, Plant- or Insect-Aided Design as techniques to mitigate stress on urban non-human species,” Terreform ONE, Mitchel Joachim, Peder Anker, Nicholas Gervasi, Topos Magazine, 112 (Sept. 2020), 32-37.
“Anthropocene Architecture: Design Earth’s Geostories” with Nina Edwards Anker, The Avery Review 29 (Feb. 2018).
Republished in: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy, Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment, (Barcelona: Actar, 2018), 206-213.
“A pioneer country? A history of Norwegian climate politics,” Climatic Change, (March 2016), 1-13.
“The Call for a New EcoTheology in Norway,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 7:2 (2013), 187-207.
“Viewing the Earth from Without or from Within,” with Nina Edwards Anker, New Geographies 4 (2011), 89-94.
“Seeing Pink: The Eco-Art of Simon Starling,” Journal of Visual Art Practice 7 (2008), 3-9.
“Science as a Vacation: A History of Ecology in Norway,” History of Science, 45 (2007), 455-479.
German translation: “Wissenschaft als Urlaub: Eine Geschichte der Ökologie in Norwegen,” in Tue Greenfort: Eine Berggeschichte, (Dornbirn: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2012), 26-57.
Norwegian translation: ”Vitenskap som ferie: En historie om økologidebatten i Norge,” i Kunnskapens betingelser, John Peter Collett (et.al.) (eds.), (Oslo: Vidarforlaget, 2009), 29-55.
“Buckminster Fuller as Captain of Spaceship Earth,” Minerva, 39 (2007), 417-434.
“Graphic Language: Herbert Bayer’s Environmental Design,” Environmental History, 12 (2007), 254-279.
“Bauhaus at the Zoo,” Nature, 439 (23 Feb. 2006), 916.
“The Closed World of Ecological Architecture,” The Journal of Architecture, 10 (2005), 527-552.
Republished as: “Ouroboros Architecture,” in The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture, Charissa Terranova and MeredithTromble (eds), (London: Routledge, 2016), 112-135.
“The Bauhaus of Nature,” Modernism/Modernity, 12 (2005), 229-251.
“The Ecological Colonization of Space,” Environmental History, 10 (2005), 239-268.
“A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes,” Philosophy and Geography, 7 (2004), 261-266.
“The Economy of Nature in the Botany of Nehemiah Grew,” Archives of Natural History, 31 (2004), 191-207.
“The Politics of Ecology in South Africa on the Radical Left,” Journal of the History of Biology, 37 (2004), 303-331.
“The Philosopher’s Cabin and the Household of Nature,” Ethics, Place and Environment, 6 (2003), 131-141.
“The Context of Ecosystem Theory,” Ecosystems, 5 (2002), 611-613.
”The Dream of the Biocentric community and the Structure of Utopias,” with Nina Witoszek, Worldviews, 2 (1998), 239-256.
Book Chapters and Invited Articles
“Evolution in Animal Aided Design: Transitioning to Urban Biodiversity,” with Mitchell Joachim and Nicholas Gervasi, in Transitioning to Sustainable Cities and Communities, Hubert Klumptner (et.al, eds.), (Basel: MDPI Books, forthcoming 2023).
“Commemorating COVID,” with Mitchell Joachim and Paul D. Miller, in The Pandemic Effect, Braine Brownell (ed.), (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2023), 44-45.
“Archiagape” in Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape and the Postnatural, Chris Perry (et.al.) (eds.), (Barcelona: Actar, 2022), 298-302.
“Ukichiro Nakaya’s Sense of Snow” with Sverker Sörlin, in Letters Sent from Heaven: Frozen and Vaporized Water: Ukichiro Nakaya and Fujiko Nakaya’s Science and Art, Jonatan Habib Engqvist and Marianne Hultman (eds.), (Oslo: OK Book, 2022), 125-131.
“Time Landscape,” in Expansions: How Will We Live Together? Hashim Sarkis and Ala Tannir (eds.), (Venice: 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2021), 176-178.
“Computing Environmental Design,” Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground, 1945-1980, Theodora Vardouli and Olga Touloumi (eds.), (London: Routledge, 2019), 15-34.
Republished (shorter version): Kjetil Fallan (ed.), The Culture of Nature in the History of Design, (London: Routledge, 2019), 44-57.
“Commentary” in Lydia Kallipoliti, The Architecture of Closed Worlds, (Zürich: Lars Müller Pub., 2018), 175.
“Ressurs-, miljø- og klimahistorie,” i I det lange løp: Festskrift til Jan Eivind Myhre, Arne Hveem Alsvik, Kim Helsvig, Knut Kjeldstadli, Kari Lindbekk (red.), (Oslo: Pax, 2017), 84-101.
“Untangling Intentions: Teaching the History of Climate Politics,” in Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities, Stephen Siperstein, Shane Hall and Stephanie LeMenager (eds.), (New York: Routledge, 2016), 272-278.
“Art in the Anthropocene,” in Jan Freuchen: Columna Translantica, (Oslo: Press, 2015), 112-122.
“Comments” in Behind the Green Door: A Critical Look at Sustainable Architecture through 600 Objects by Rotor, (Oslo: Oslo Architecture Triennale, 2014), 27, 169, 178, 203, 210, 214.
“From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A Short History of Ecological Design,” in Behind the Green Door: Architecture and the Desire for Sustainability, Helle Benedicte Berg (ed.), (Oslo: Oslo Architecture Triennale, 2013), 129-139.
“Ecological Communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute,” in Cultivating the Colonies: Colonial States and their Environmental Legacies, Christina Folke Ax (et.a.) (ed.), (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011), 275-299.
“Plant Community,” in Schwarz, A.E. & K. Jax (Eds.), Ecology Revisited, (Berlin: Springer, 2011), 325-331.
“Scandinavia: Norway,” Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, (Detroit: Gale, 2008), 233-236.
“Outer Space” and “Moon Treaty,” in The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
“Jan Christian Smuts,” New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 2007.
“Den antiliberale dypøkologien,” in Miljø og menneske. Peder Anker and Tarjei Rønnow (eds.), (Oslo: Gyldendal, 2002), 53-65.
“Outline for a History of Ecological Architecture,” M29: Yearbook for the Oslo School of Architecture, Mari Lending (ed.), (Oslo: The Oslo School of Architecture, 2002), 148-154.
”From Skepticism to Dogmatism and Back: Remarks on the History of Deep Ecology,” in Philosophical Dialogues, Andrew Brennan and Nina Witoszek (eds.) (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), 431-443.
”Risk Management, Rationality and Deep Ecology,” in Environmental Risk and Ethics, Peder Anker (ed.) (Oslo: Centre for Development and the Environment, 1995).
Non Peer Reviewed Journals
“The Cooper Union Promotes Russian Architecture. Why?” Archinect, Jan. 21 2023.
“Greenwashing a Nation,” LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, 15 (Spring 2022), 100-105.
“Periferiens makt: Historia om miljøvitenskapen,” Syn og segn, 3:126 (2020), 69-75.
”Minibiografi: Den ‘grunnøkologiske bevegelse’. Om Jørgen Randers’ faglitterære bidrag” Prosa 6 (2010), 20-23.
“Den økologiske arkitekturens lukkede verden,” (”The closed world of ecological architecture) Byggekunst, 89 nr. 3 (2007), 32-39.
Republished: Vagant 3 (2010), 80-83.
“Biology and the Bauhaus,” Tate etc., 6 (Spring 2006), 48-55.
“USA sett fra Norge sett fra USA,” (USA seen from Norway seen from the USA,” Samtiden, 2 (2004), 124-133.
“Arne Næss sett utenfra,” (“Arne Naess seen from Abroad,”) Samtiden, 4 (2002), 4-19.
“Environmental History versus History of Science,” Reviews in Anthropology, 31 (2002), 309-322.
“Økologisk forvaltning av naturressurser i urbefolkningsområder: et historisk tilbakeblikk,” (”Ecological management of natural resources in indigenous regions: a historical perspective,”) Diedut, 1 (2002), 23-32.
Book Reviews
Ştefan Dorondel and Stelu Şerban (eds.), A New Ecological Order. Development and the transformation of nature in Eastern Europe, Centaurus, forthcoming.
Marion Grau, Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstucting Sacred Geographies in Norway, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, forthcoming.
Mark W. Hauser, Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism, The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies 24 (2022), 16-17.
Marilyn Fischer, Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing: Constructing “Democracy and Social Ethics, Isis 112:1 (March 2021), 195-196.
David Schuyler, Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism, The Journal of American Studies, 54:4 (2020), E50.
Larry D. Busbea, The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics and the Human in the 1970s. Environmental History, 25:4 (2020).
Scott Kaufman, The Environment and International History. Environmental History, 25:3 (2020), 548-550.
Deborah R. Coen, Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale. H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, Jan. 17. 2020.
Avigail Sachs, Environmental Design: Architecture, Politics and Science in Postwar America, Journal of Architectural Education, Nov. 8 2019.
Mari Lending, Eirik Arff Gulseth Bøhn, Tim Anstey (eds.), Images of Egypt. Arkitketur N, 101 (2019), 112.
Rohan Deb Roy, Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909. The American Historical Review, 124:1 (Feb. 2019), 229-230.
Panu Pihkala, Early Ecotheology and Joseph Sittler. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture, 12:2 (2018), 247-248.
Jane Carruthers, National Park Science: A Century of Research in South Africa. Journal of the History of Biology, 51 (2018), 617-619.
James Beattie (ed.), Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire. Environmental History, 21 (May 2016).
Hannah Gay, The Silwood Circle: A History of Ecology and the Making of Scientific Careers. Annals of Science, 71 (Oct 2014).
Peter G. Ayres. Shaping Ecology: The Life of Arthur Tansley. Isis, 105:2 (June 2014), 446-447.
Michael Ruse, The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet. Centaurus, 56:2 (April 2014), 123-124.
Martin Reuss and Stephen Cutcliffe (eds.), The Illusory Boundary Isis, 103:2 (2012), 388-389.
P.M. Harman, The Culture of Nature in Britain, 1680-1860. Environmental History, Oct 2011, 727-728.
Naomi Oreskes; Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt Isis 102 (2011), 589-590.
Martin Braathen, Alt er arkitektur! Arkitektur N 93 (2011), 70.
Harriet Ritvo,The Dawn of Green, American Historical Review, (2010), 1532-1533.
Nils Johan Ringdal, Georg Valentin von Munthe af Morgenstierne, Historisk tidsskrift 87 (2008), 727-729.
William Beinart and Lotte Hughes, Environment and Empire. The Economic History Review, 61:3 (2008), 740-741.
David McDermott Hughes, From Enslavement to Environmentalism. Canadian Journal of History, 42 (2007), 373-375.
Phil Brown, Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement
and Gregg Mitman, Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes, Science, 318 (5. Oct. 2007), 46-47.
Paul R. Josephson, Resources under Regimes: Technology, Environment, and the State. Minerva, 45 (2007), 93-95.
James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back – and How We Can Still Save Humanity, Minerva (Oslo), 83:2 (2007), 134-136.
Kim Cuddington and Beatrix Beisner (eds.), Ecological Paradigms Lost, Isis, 97 (2006), 808.
Bryan Norton, Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management, Annals of Science, 63 (2006), 505-507.
Robert E. Kohler, All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950, Science, 313 (2006), 1741.
Sharon E. Kingsland, The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000, Centaurus, 48 (2006), 115-116.
Stephen Bocking, Nature’s Experts, Metascience, 15 (2006), 109-111.
Sverker Sörlin, Europas Idéhistoria 1492-1918, vol. 3-4, Historisk tidsskrift, 85 (2006), 165-167.
Londa Schiebinger, Plants and Empire, Metascience, 14 (2005), 489-491.
Einar-Arne Drivenes and Harald Dag Jølle (eds.), Norsk polarhistorie, Isis, 96 (2005), 662.
Fa-Ti Fan, British Naturalists in Qing China, Metascience, 14 (2005), 155-157.
Preben Munthe, Christen Smith: Botaniker og økonom, Økonomisk forum, 4 (2005), 49-50.
Ross A. Slotten, The Heretic in Darwin’s Court, Metascience, 14 (2005), 136-138.
Trausti Valsson, Planning in Iceland, Environmental History, 10 (2005), 122-123.
Michel Bess, The Light-Green Society, Isis, 95 (2004), 743.
Nancy Leys Stepan, Picturing Tropical Nature, Metascience, 13 (2004) 95-97.
Robert E. Kohler, Landscapes and Labscapes, Metascience, 12 (2003), 401-404.
Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension (trs.), Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift, 38 (2003), 175-177.
Michael Bravo and Sverker Sörlin (eds.), Narrating the Arctic, Environmental History, 8 (2003), 487-488.
Frank N. Egerton, Hewett Cottrell Watson: Victorian Plant Ecologist and Evolutionist, and Michael Shermer, In Darwin’s Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace, Metascience, 12 (2003), 322-324.
Peter Raby, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life and Alfred Russel Wallace, The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader. Jane R. Camerini (ed.), Metascience, 11 (2002), 413-415.
Johannes Fabian, Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa, Isis, 93 (2002), 291-292.
Timo Myllyntaus and Mikko Saikku (eds.), Encountering the Past in Nature, Environmental History, 7 (2002), 321-322.
Torben Hviid Nielsen (et.al.), Livets tre og kodenes kode, Historisk tidsskrift, 80 (2001), 271-272.
Thomas Potthast, Die Evolution und der Naturschutz, Journal of the History of Biology, 34 (2001), 400-401.
Claus Jensen, Challenger – en organisert katastrofe, Kritikkjournalen, 2 (1994), 36.
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