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Janina Priebe is an associate professor of history of science and ideas at Umeå University, Sweden, where she holds the Arctic Five Chair in Environmental History. Her research explores the interplay between environmental history, science, and societal transitions, with a particular focus on the Nordic region. Currently, she leads projects examining the climate transition within Sweden’s forestry sector and the role of energy transitions in Nordic, so-called peripheral areas. Through this lens, Priebe investigates how historical narratives shape contemporary debates on sustainability, and natural resource management and use.
RCC Project: Illuminating Futures: Solar Thermal Technology and Society’s Energy Aspirations
Selected Publications:
- “Glacial Energy Futures? The History of Unbuilt Hydropower in Greenland from the 1950s to the 1970s.” Water History 16 (2024): 271–90. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-024-00351-8.
- with Erland Mårald and Hanna Vikström. “Holes of Hope and Uncertainty: Test Wells as a Site of Potential, Exploration, and the Verdict on Greenland’s Oil Development in the 1970s and 1990s.” In “Rights of Nature and the Antarctic.” Special issue, The Polar Journal 14, no. 2 (2024): 535–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2024.2414644.
- with Nina Wormbs. “Arctic Dreams: Histories Uncovering the Imagined, the Forgotten, and the Hidden Arctic.” In “Arctic Dreams.” Special issue, Lychnos (2023): 47–56. https://doi.org/10.48202/25819.
- with Isabella Hallberg-Sramek, Elsa Reimerson, and Erland Mårald. “The Spectrum of Knowledge: Integrating Knowledge Dimensions in the Context of Forests and Climate Change.” Sustainability Science 18, no. 3 (2023): 1329–41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01309-0.
- with Jimmy Jönsson, Erland Mårald, and Tomas Lundmark. “Continuity and Change in Forest Restoration: A Comparison of US Ecology and Forestry in the 1940s and 1990s.” Environmental Science & Policy 134 (2022): 100–107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.04.007.
- “Imagining Soy in Germany: Changing Scientific Visions in the Twentieth Century.” In The Age of Soybean: An Environmental History of Soy During the Great Acceleration, edited by Claiton Marcio da Silva and Caudio de Majo. The White Horse Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3197/63800040695086.book.