Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article presents the first major study of the changing perspectives, politics and practices in the controversial field of herbicide helicopter spraying of Norwegian forests.The politics and practices that led to substantial spraying in Norwegian woods were developed in the 1950s and it became common practice in the 1960s and 1970s.It was gradually reduced from the mid-1980s, and especially from 1991 when economic subsidies were redrawn.The decline was driven by public protest, motivated by outdoor interests, landscape aesthetics, and health and environmental concerns.Knowledge, policy, legislation and practices went through significant changes between 1955 and 1995, making the regime of the early 1960s appear as almost entirely the opposite to that of the early 2000s.The key figures who built and embodied the old regime, however, never lost their faith in it as the superior and necessary way for the future of forestry.
Author: May-Brith Ohman Nielsen
Institution: University of Agder
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4416304600
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