Viktor Pal is a Hungarian environmental historian, an associate professor at the University of Tampere and the University of Ostrava, and a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Technology and the Environment in State-socialist Hungary: An Economic History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and with Stephen Brain has co-edited the collection of essays, Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes. Myth, Propaganda, Reality (Routledge, 2019).Tuomas Rasanen works as an associate professor of environmental history at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include the history of human-wild animal relationship, the history of Finnish environmentalism and the Baltic Sea marine environmental history.Mikko Saikku is the McDonnell Douglas Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki. Saikku is the author or editor of several internationally noted academic articles, collections, and books, including This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta (University of Georgia Press, 2005) and An Unfamiliar America: Essays in American Studies (Routledge, 2021). He is the past president of the Nordic Association for American Studies, and currently serves as Director of the Helsinki Environmental Humanities Hub.

• Contributor BiographiesChapter 1. Introduction to the Environmental Histories of FinlandViktor Pal, Tuomas Rasanen, Mikko SaikkuSection 1. Ideas and the Human Construction of the EnvironmentChapter 2. Knowledge on Trees and Forests - Finnish Forest Research from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth CenturyJaana LaineChapter 3. 'Reaching Maturity' or 'Selling Out'? The Idea of Green Growth in Finnish Green Party Environmental Discourses 1988-1995Risto-Matti MateroChapter 4. The Changing Status of Birch Trees in the Finnish Forests. From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth CenturySeija A. NiemiChapter 5. Trash Food? Fish as Food in Finnish Society between the 1870s and the 1990sMatti HannikainenSection 2. Contested and Colonised SpacesChapter 6. Cultural Nature in Mid-Lappish Reindeer Herding CommunitiesMaria Lahteenmaki, Oona Ilmolahti, Outi Manninen and Sari StarkChapter 7. Sami Frames in the Planning and Management of Nature Protection Areas in Historical Perspective - Environmental Non-conflict in InariJukka NyyssoenenChapter 8. Wolves and the Finnish Wilderness: Changing Forests and the Proper Place for Wolves in Twentieth Century FinlandHeta LahdesmakiChapter 9. All Quiet on the Eastern Front? The Finnish Army and Wildlife during WWIIMauri Soikkanen and Simo LaakkonenSection 3. Altering the EnvironmentChapter 10. From Stale Air to Toxic: Concerns About Urban Air in FinlandJanne MakirantaChapter 11. From Eradication Campaigns to Care Protection: Finnish Endangered Animals in the Twentieth CenturyTuomas Rasanen

Viktor Pal is a Hungarian environmental historian, an associate professor at the University of Tampere and the University of Ostrava, and a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Technology and the Environment in State-socialist Hungary: An Economic History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and with Stephen Brain has co-edited the collection of essays, Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes. Myth, Propaganda, Reality (Routledge, 2019).Tuomas Rasanen works as an associate professor of environmental history at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include the history of human-wild animal relationship, the history of Finnish environmentalism and the Baltic Sea marine environmental history.Mikko Saikku is the McDonnell Douglas Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki. Saikku is the author or editor of several internationally noted academic articles, collections, and books, including This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta (University of Georgia Press, 2005) and An Unfamiliar America: Essays in American Studies (Routledge, 2021). He is the past president of the Nordic Association for American Studies, and currently serves as Director of the Helsinki Environmental Humanities Hub.

• Contributor BiographiesChapter 1. Introduction to the Environmental Histories of FinlandViktor Pal, Tuomas Rasanen, Mikko SaikkuSection 1. Ideas and the Human Construction of the EnvironmentChapter 2. Knowledge on Trees and Forests - Finnish Forest Research from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth CenturyJaana LaineChapter 3. 'Reaching Maturity' or 'Selling Out'? The Idea of Green Growth in Finnish Green Party Environmental Discourses 1988-1995Risto-Matti MateroChapter 4. The Changing Status of Birch Trees in the Finnish Forests. From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth CenturySeija A. NiemiChapter 5. Trash Food? Fish as Food in Finnish Society between the 1870s and the 1990sMatti HannikainenSection 2. Contested and Colonised SpacesChapter 6. Cultural Nature in Mid-Lappish Reindeer Herding CommunitiesMaria Lahteenmaki, Oona Ilmolahti, Outi Manninen and Sari StarkChapter 7. Sami Frames in the Planning and Management of Nature Protection Areas in Historical Perspective - Environmental Non-conflict in InariJukka NyyssoenenChapter 8. Wolves and the Finnish Wilderness: Changing Forests and the Proper Place for Wolves in Twentieth Century FinlandHeta LahdesmakiChapter 9. All Quiet on the Eastern Front? The Finnish Army and Wildlife during WWIIMauri Soikkanen and Simo LaakkonenSection 3. Altering the EnvironmentChapter 10. From Stale Air to Toxic: Concerns About Urban Air in FinlandJanne MakirantaChapter 11. From Eradication Campaigns to Care Protection: Finnish Endangered Animals in the Twentieth CenturyTuomas Rasanen

Viktor Pal is a Hungarian environmental historian, an associate professor at the University of Tampere and the University of Ostrava, and a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Technology and the Environment in State-socialist Hungary: An Economic History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and with Stephen Brain has co-edited the collection of essays, Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes. Myth, Propaganda, Reality (Routledge, 2019).Tuomas Rasanen works as an associate professor of environmental history at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include the history of human-wild animal relationship, the history of Finnish environmentalism and the Baltic Sea marine environmental history.Mikko Saikku is the McDonnell Douglas Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki. Saikku is the author or editor of several internationally noted academic articles, collections, and books, including This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta (University of Georgia Press, 2005) and An Unfamiliar America: Essays in American Studies (Routledge, 2021). He is the past president of the Nordic Association for American Studies, and currently serves as Director of the Helsinki Environmental Humanities Hub.

• Contributor BiographiesChapter 1. Introduction to the Environmental Histories of FinlandViktor Pal, Tuomas Rasanen, Mikko SaikkuSection 1. Ideas and the Human Construction of the EnvironmentChapter 2. Knowledge on Trees and Forests - Finnish Forest Research from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth CenturyJaana LaineChapter 3. 'Reaching Maturity' or 'Selling Out'? The Idea of Green Growth in Finnish Green Party Environmental Discourses 1988-1995Risto-Matti MateroChapter 4. The Changing Status of Birch Trees in the Finnish Forests. From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth CenturySeija A. NiemiChapter 5. Trash Food? Fish as Food in Finnish Society between the 1870s and the 1990sMatti HannikainenSection 2. Contested and Colonised SpacesChapter 6. Cultural Nature in Mid-Lappish Reindeer Herding CommunitiesMaria Lahteenmaki, Oona Ilmolahti, Outi Manninen and Sari StarkChapter 7. Sami Frames in the Planning and Management of Nature Protection Areas in Historical Perspective - Environmental Non-conflict in InariJukka NyyssoenenChapter 8. Wolves and the Finnish Wilderness: Changing Forests and the Proper Place for Wolves in Twentieth Century FinlandHeta LahdesmakiChapter 9. All Quiet on the Eastern Front? The Finnish Army and Wildlife during WWIIMauri Soikkanen and Simo LaakkonenSection 3. Altering the EnvironmentChapter 10. From Stale Air to Toxic: Concerns About Urban Air in FinlandJanne MakirantaChapter 11. From Eradication Campaigns to Care Protection: Finnish Endangered Animals in the Twentieth CenturyTuomas Rasanen