| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.3

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Unique Environmentalism: A Comparative Perspective. By Gunnar Grendstad, Per Selle, Kristin Strømsnes, and Øystein Bortne. New York: Springer, 2006. vii + 190 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index. Paper $84.95.
Imagine yourself being a wolf, wandering along the Swedish-Norwegian border. Which side should you choose to keep your track on? If you had read Unique Environmentalism: A Comparative Perspective, you would be in no doubt.	1
In Unique Environmentalism, a group of Norwegian political scientists explore Norwegian organized envir-onmentalism. According to the authors, the Norwegian environmental movement is unique and, from a comparative perspective, has some interesting anomalies that explain, for example, the positive Norwegian attitude toward whaling and the lack of a Norwegian green party. The two explanatory perspectives are labelled the state friendly society and the local community perspective.	. . .

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