Index
Page numbers in italic refers to figures.
Abisko, Sweden, 30
adaptive management, 246
Aeronautical Meteorology,
Aga Khan IV, 188
aggregative expertise, 242
Air Research and Development Command, 116
Allen, Myles, 256
Andersson, Magdalena, 294,
Anér, Kerstin, 74
Ångström, Anders, 119
Anker, Peder, 42
Annan, Kofi, 29
Antarctic Treaty, 86
Anthropocene Review journal, 223
Arrhenius Laboratory, University of Stockholm, 118
artificial intelligence, 285
Åström, Sverker, 134
call for scientific report to support UN initiative, 138
diplomatic strategy at UN, ,
on national sovereignty, 30
preparations for Stockholm Conference,
Atomic Energy Commission, 96
Bali Road Map, 220
Baltic Sea Declaration, 166
Baltic Sea Joint Comprehensive Environmental Programme, 166
Baltic Sea Prime Ministers Conference, Ronneby 1990, 165
Banduri, Tariq, 222
Bastida, Xiye, 288
Baumol, William, 248
Beijer Foundation, 214
Beijer, Kjell, , 305
Bengtsson, Ingemund, 155
Bennet, Carl, 311
Biermann, Frank, 16
Big World, Small Planet: Abundance within Planetary Boundaries (Rockström & Klum), 265
Bildt, Carl, 60
biogeochemistry, 271
biosphere, 87
Bjerknes, Jacob, 109
Blavatsky, Anna Helena, 272
Board of Computing Machinery, 107
Bohn, Viveka, 74
Bolin, Bert, 99, 219
acid rain case study, 148
and AGGG, 192
approach to climate change, 220
atmospheric chemistry, 102
as authority on biogeochemistry,
on carbon tax, 64
career, 89,
on computer modelling, 170
conference reports, 182
death, 249
early years and education,
formation of climate governance institutions, 183
and IGBP,
legacy, 94
as meta-expert, 243
and politicization of climate change, 188
as research student, , 100
SCOPE reports, 207
and Villach-Bellagio conference 1987, 192
Bolin, Richard, 119
Brand, Stewart, 299
Brazil, 138
Bretherton Diagram, 204
Broadgate, Wendy, 268
Brodin, Gunnar, 213
Brohult, Sven, 129
Buch, Kurt, 102
Budyko, Mikhail, 150
Bush, Vannevar, 111
Byers, Horace, 105
Caldwell, Lynton, 6
Callendar, Guy Stewart, 101
Carson, Rachel, 243
Center Party, Sweden, 32
Chadwick, Michael, 187
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 22
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 281
Christian Democrats, Sweden, 60
Christian, David, 230
CIA, Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI), 113
cities
competition between, 323
global cities,
global green capitals, 9
role in policy, 323
why they matter,
climate change
2 degree temperature target, , 257
and climate crisis discourse, 220
drivers of, 170
as IGY topic of concern, 88
intertwined science and politics of, 122
mitigation and adaptation policies, 180
polar climate change, 110
policy implications of, 182
promotion as issue of global political relevance, 151
transnational climate change,
climate science
advancing through scientific activism,
cutting-edge research at Stockholm University, 120
institutional foundations,
Committee for Research and Factual Issues (Kommittén for forskning och andra sakfrågor, CRF), 145, 147, 152
Committee on Atmospheric Sciences, 120
conceptualizing work, 38,
connecting with others, , ,
connection, concept of,
contributary expertise, 38
con-words, ,
COP15, 256
Cornell, Sarah, 267
Croll, James, 223
Crosby, Alfred W.,
Crumley, Carole, 254
cryosphere, 87
Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, 39
Dalai Lama, 288
Daléus, Lennart, 32
Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics,
Davos, Switzerland, 265
Dawkins, Richard, 271
Degefa, Worknesh, 192
Developing Policies for Responding to Climate Change report, 198
Development Dialogue journal 32
Diamandis, Peter, 270
DIVERSITAS, 209
Döös, Bo, 183
Dryzek, John, 41
Earth System science. See also Planetary Boundaries
establishing international hub in Stockholm,
institutionalization, 107,
integrative approach, 224
meetings, 224
policy relevance of global change research, 205
Earth System trends, 226
Earthwatch, 154
Easterbrook, Gregg, 62
ecological economics, 247
Ecological Economics journal, 214
ecological modernization, 277
Ecological Research Committee, 153
eco-modernism, , 273
Egnér, Hans, 127
Engelke, Peter, 226
Engström, Arne, 145
ENIAC computer, 99
environment
integrative aspect,
as issue of social change, 66
neoliberalization of,
as problematic and challenging,
US armed forces understanding of the, 109
environmental expertise,
environmental governance. See also global environmental governance (GEG)
adaptive management, 246
human dimension of its history,
place of ‘governance’ in, 276
planetary framing of challenges facing humanity, 288
environmental issues, public awareness in 1960s,
environmental movement, co-existence of Swedish state with, 59
environmental politics, globalisation of, 141
environmental protection
concerns of developing countries over, 147
measures derived from economics, 276
environmentalism
critiques of, 66
early contributions in Sweden, 54
of the rich,
and science in Sweden,
European Air Chemistry Network (EACN),
European Union, climate policy, 199
Fagerberg, Sven, 66
Faucheux, Sylvie, 251
Febvre, Lucien, 272
Fehrm, Martin, 71
Finland, 87
Flohn, Hermann, 150
Forsse, Anders, 153
Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), 284
France, 138
Francis, Pope, 262
Fridays for Future movement, 290
Friends of the Earth, 202
friluftsliv (out of doors),
future studies, 65
Gaia,
Gapminder Foundation, 5
Garcia, Rolando V., 120
gender diversity, and environmental progress,
geoengineering, ,
geophysical research, Swedish reputation for,
George, Henry, 133
Gerholm, Tor Ragnar, 66
German Marshall Fund, 195
Gillberg, Björn, 32
Gleick, Peter, 198
Global Change magazine, 209
global change movement, 215
global cities,
global environmental diplomacy, 162
global environmental governance (GEG)
conceptual developments, 38
contibutions of Stockholm,
contributions of Stockholm to, 179,
convening of meetings, 39
fundamental principle, 238
in the future,
history of advances in,
international networks, 38
legacy of Stockholm Conference, 2
literature on history of,
periods in evolution of,
primary method of, 300
progress towards sustainable environment, , 301
role of key ‘architects’,
role of Stockholm in evolution of,
studying historically,
Sweden’s role in, 31
global environmental monitoring, , 162
global green capitals, 9
Global Network of Environmental Monitoring (GNEM),
Goldsmith, Edward, 235
Gordon, Line, 254
Gothenburg Protocol, 29
Gothenburg University, 281
Granat, Lennart, 148
Great Acceleration
coining of term, 226
emergence of idea, 224
Keeling curve and, 104
natural resource extractivism during, 273
green cities, 82
Green Folkhem, ,
greenhouse gas emissions, 180
greenhouse gases, research into,
Gren, Ing-Marie, 248
Gustafson, Torsten, 109
Guterres, António, 294
Halbwachs, Maurice, 21
Hambraeus, Birgitta, 74
Hamilton, Clive, ,
Hansson, Per Albin, 61
Haraway, Donna, 56
Hardin, Garrett, 243
Hare, Ken, 192
Hayashi, Y., 188
Heidenstam, Verner von, 49
Heimat movement, 60
Helsinki Convention 1974, 166
Heyerdahl, Thor, 158
Higgins, Polly, 157
Hofsten, Angelica von, 71
Holdren, John, 166
Holocene stability, 231
homeostasis, 272
humanities, contribution to widening the social space of the environment, 72
hydropower dams, 69
India, 138
Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE network), 224
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 5, 23, 35, 121, 170, 200
first assessment report, 200,
second assessment report, 203
Sundsvall meeting 1990,
International Federation of the Institutes of Advanced Studies (IFIAS),
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, 209
International Institute for Energy, Resources and the Human Environment, 167
International Institute of Environmental Affairs, 158
International Polar Year (IPY) program, 84
International Population Institute, 158
International Society for Ecological Economics, 214
International Study Conference on the Physical Basis of Climate and Climate Modelling, 170
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, 120
Jagger, Bianca, 217
Jenkins, Dale, 153
Johnson, Keith, 156
Journal of Meteorology, 97
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 97
Joyce, J. Wallace, 85
Kassas, Mohamed, 158
Keeling, Charles David, 103
Keeling curve, 89,
Kellogg, William, 150
Kenya Academy of Science, 189
Kenya Ministry of Energy, 189
Kenyatta, Uhuru, 294
King, Alexander, 176
Kjellén, Bo, 219
Klum, Mattias, 265
knowledge
environmental expertise,
environmental knowledge stimulated by media controversies,
history of, 64
role in Sweden’s environmental turn,
knowledge clusters, 77
Koch, Karin, 132
Kropotkin, Peter, 133
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 117
Kurzweil, Ray, 270
Lachmund, Jens, 25
Lagerlöf, Selma,
Latour, Bruno, 23
Lee, James, 152
Liberal Party, Sweden, 63
Lie, Trygve, 309
Lindahl-Kiessling, Kerstin, 214
Lindhagen, Anna, 73
Linköping University, 282
Linnaeus, 58
Lönnroth, Ami, 74
Lönnroth, Måns, 199
Lovins, Amory, 166
Lubchenco, Jane, 251
Lund University, 282
Mabogunje, Akin, 251
Manabe, Syukuro, 150
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 149
Mathews, Jessica, 199
memory and history, 21
meta-expertise,
Moberg, Åsa, 74
Moderate Party, Sweden, 60
Moi, Daniel arap, 174
Munro, Robert, 178
Museum of National History, Stockholm, 117
Myrdal, Gunnar, 158
Nairobi, Kenya, 161
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States), 204
Nash, Roderick, 13
Natural Science Research Council Ecological Research Committee, 152
Nilsson, Sam, 176
nitrogen and eutrophication, 101
Nobel Institute, 107
Nobel Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, 117
Nordic Conference on Soil and Water Pollution, 1966, 125
Nordic Defense Union, 114
Nordic Environmental Protection Convention, 125
Nordic exceptionalism, 312
Nordström, Ludvig, 70
Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSX), 111
Nykvist, Björn, 241
O’Riordan, Tim, 251
Observation Hill, Stockholm, 106
Odum, Howard T., 167
Office of Naval Research (ONR), 112
Only One Earth (Stockholm Conference report), , 156
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 96
Oppenheimer, Michael, 192
Örn, Torsten, 142
Ostrom, Elinor, 254
Our Future in the Anthropocene Biosphere report,
Our Planet, Our Future summit, 2021,
Paglia, Eric, 297
papal encyclical on the environment, 262
Paris Agreement, 257
Pekeris, Chaim, 102
Persson, Göran (Swedish government administrator of environmental issues), 123
Petri, Lennart, 142
Phillips, Norman, 99
Pisharoty, Pisharoth Rama, 150
Planetary Boundaries debate
lack of level playing field, 274
politics of boundary concept, 274
roots of,
Planetary Boundaries project,
Planetary Boundaries research, 267
planetary metaphysics,
Plass, Gilbert, 97
polar climate change, 110
populist politics, 298
public intellecturals, contribution to widening the social space of the environment,
Ramel, Stig, 168
Randers, Jörgen, 282
Raskin, Paul, 188
Rättvik Conference on Environmental Research and Management Priorities for the 1980s, , 188
realist sustainability,
Reichelderfer, Francis W., 95
Resilience 2008 Conference,
Richet, Charles, 234
Right Livelihood Award, 311
Rio+20 summit, 210
Ripert, Jean, 203
Rockefeller Foundations, 310
Rockström, Johan, 222, 242, 266
Big World, Small Planet, 265
Breaking Boundaries, 285
as meta-scientist, 243
and Tällberg Forum, 233
and Villa Brevik meeting, 237
Roosevelt, Theodore, 56
Rossby, Åke, 99
Rotschild, Emma, 213
Royal Colloquium, 175
Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, 98
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
as authority on nature protection, 46
Rydbeck, Olof, 142
Saltsjöbaden symposium 1982, 214
Saltsjöbaden Workshops, 29
Samfundet för hembygdsvård (SfH) (Society for Heimat), 60
Sápmi, 84
Sassen, Saskia, 9
Schumacher, E. F., 167
scientific activism, advancing climate science,
Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), 168
Commission on Monitoring, 153
report on global environmental monitoring, , 186
report on greenhouse effect, climate change, and ecosystems, 183
Seeds of a Good Anthropocene project, 263
de Seynes, Phillipe, 133
Singularity University, 270
Social nature protection,
Söder, Karin, 213–
solar radiation management,
Soller, Barbro,
Solow, Robert, 188
Soviet Academy of Sciences, 165
Soviet-Swedish Symposium on the Pollution of the Baltic, 165
Soviet-Swedish Working Group on Problems of the Human Environment, 165
Stafford-Smith, Mark, 275
Stemme, Erik, 98
Stockholm accelerator, 107
Stockholm Conference. See United Nations Conference on the Human Environment 1972 (Stockholm Conference)
Stockholm Conference on the Acidification of the Environment, 1982, 176
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 29
Stockholm International Institute of Environmentally Sound Technologies Assessment (SIIESTA), 212
Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), 318
Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), 5, 39, 107, 167, 216, 222, 232, 233, 248, 252, 255, 265, 267, 281, 282, 319
Stockholm University
location, 117
Stockholm, Sweden
as a centre of knowledge production,
contributions to evolution of GEG, ,
as global hub for Earth System science,
as place of environmental memory,
research and higher education institutions,
rise as global environmental hub,
role in evolution of GEG, 2,
significance for GEG,
in summer of 1972, 18
as ultimate smart and creative city,
Vallhallavägen, 80
Stockholm+10 Conference, Nairobi,
Stockholm+25, 28
Stockholm+40, 28
Stråth, Bo, 61
Strindberg, August, 48
Strong, Maurice, 144
and Beijer Institute, 188
keynote address at Rättvik Conference, 178
and Stockholm Declaration, 155
and Stockholm+25, 28
UNEP Gold Medal award, 174
Study of Man’s Impact on Climate (SMIC), , 170
Sundberg, Kaj, 142
Sundsvall, Sweden, 202
Suomi, Verner, 120
sustainability science,
Sustainability Science Workshop, Friibergh Manor 2020,
Suzuki, David, 243
Svalbard, Norway, 117
Sverdrup, Harald Ulrik, 112
Sweden. See also Stockholm, Sweden
deferring from state to society,
as democratic template, 30
devolution,
environmental politics, 64,
environmental reawakening, 211
and evolution of GEG, 30
gender diversity and envrionmental progress,
Green Folkhem, ,
hollowing out of green state, , 322
industrialization and emigration, 48
public awareness of environmental issues in 1960s,
research funding,
role in GEG, 31
science and environmentalism,
science and scholarship policy, 3
science diplomacy at UN,
self-conception as a progressive pioneering country, 75
solidarity, , 312
state of nature in early twentieth century,
Torekov Compromise,
as world conscience, 302
Sweden–America Foundation, 95
Swedish Board of Computing Machinery, 99
Swedish environmental exceptionalism,
Swedish Environmental Research Institute, 125
Swedish exceptionalism,
Swedish Folkhem, 244
Swedish identity, 50
Swedish Institute for Space Physics, 115
Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA), 99
Swedish nationalism, role of nature in,
Switzerland, seminar in Founex,
Talbot, Lee, 152
Tamm, Elisabeth, 71
Targets and Indicators of Climate Change report, 198
Taube, Evert, 71
Tepper, Morris, 120
Thomas, Julia Adeney, 43
Thompson, Philip D., 113
Tiselius, Arne, 175
transformation,
Transition Town movement, 324
Ulriksdal Palace, Stockholm, 175
Umeå University, 282
UN Climate Action Summit, New York 2019, 287
UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, 163
UN Economic Commission for Europe, 133
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 89
UN Secretariat Office for Science and Technology, 146
UN World Population Conference 1974, 166
United Kingdom, 138
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment 1972 (Stockholm Conference)
big picture brainstorming event, 158
boycott by most Eastern Bloc countries, 155
Declaration on the Human Environment, 28
delegates and attendendees, 155
demonstrations near venues by activists, 160
Distinguished Lecture Series for Conference delegates, 158
Environment Forum, 157,
human environment concept, 1
institutional legacy, 161
intellectual basis, 135
national environmental reports and case studies,
opening speech, 157
overarching principle, 145
People’s Forum,
plenary, 158
pre-conference regional seminars, 156
report (Only One Earth), , 156
Sweden’s case study on acid rain,
transport options, 160
United Nations General Assembly
resolution 45/212 Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind, 203
resolution to establish UNEP, 161
Swedish science diplomacy,
United Nations Symposium on Population, Resources and Environment, Stockholm 1973, 166
US Air Force Cambridge Research Center Space Group, 116
US Air Research and Development Command, 112
US Navy, 112
van Allen, Abbie, 84
van Allen, James A., 84
Vernadsky, Vladimir, 272
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, 181
Vienna, Austria, 9
Villa Brevik meeting, Lidingö 2008, 237
Villach Conference, 1985, , 197
Villach, Austria, 9
Villach-Bellagio conference 1987,
Vindelälven River, Sweden, 69
Vogt, William, 243
Volvo Environment Prize, 311
Walker, Brian, 247
Walker, Richard, 24
Wall, Anders, 212
Wallén, Axel, 110
Wallenberg Foundation, 214
warfare, weather forecasting and, 109
Warrick, Richard, 183
Water Stress Indicator, 5
welfare, connections with nature, , 54
White, Gilbert, 188
Wijkman, Anders, 283
Wikström, Jan-Erik, 212
women, role in environmental progress,
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Lagerlöf),
Woodwell, George, 192
World Climate Conference, Geneva 1979, 171
World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) (Brundtland Commission). See Brundtland Commission
World Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, Toronto 1988, 196
Wormbs, Nina, 254
Yates, Dan, 111
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