DOI 10.51255/2311–603X_2025_2_193

I. A. Tsverianashvili. The Ecologisation of Sweden after World War II: Problems and Achievements // Petersburg Historical Journal, no. 2, 2025, pp. 193–202

Abstract:

This article examines the genesis of the ecologisation process, which began to be actively
implemented in the country in the late 1940s. If the pre-war period was characterized by the absence of a unified environmental policy, an upsurge in the activity of the Swedish public and intellectuals in the country’s environmental problems and environmental issues, but after the 1940s in Sweden begins the formation of an environmental vector in the internal policy, which was supported by a high level of attention from the public and state institutions. The range of environmental problems has grown, Swedish scientists and researchers gave traditions of environmental education. Public environmental associations, movements, and unions began
to appear in large quantities, the vector of national environmental policy was finally formed. The main idea of this article is considered for the first time in Russian historiography and is intended to introduce it into the range of issues in the study of Scandinavian studies. The importance and relevance of this topic is underlined by Sweden’s current role as a leader in European environmental policy.

Key words: Sweden, ecologisation, environmental issues, environmental policy, environmental
organizations, environmental history, environment, public initiative, nature conservation, public debate.

Author:

Tsverianashvili, Ivan Alekseevich — Senior Lecturer at the Department of History and
Regional Studies, The St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications named after Bonch-Bruevich (St. Petersburg, Russia).
E-mail: cverianashvili.ia@sut.ru
ORCID: 0000-0002-6514-9725

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