August Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 16 (2004) Winner
Sverker Sörlin
スヴェルケル・ソールリン
Sverker Sörlin
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1956-08-06 （Åsele, Västerbotten, Sweden）
- Nationality
- Swedish
- Languages
- Swedish, English
- Residence History
- Umeå (Umeå University) → Stockholm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) → Uppsala (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study) → Åsele (birthplace)
Career
- Occupations
- historian of ideas, environmental historian, writer, professor, academic
- Active Years
- 1980-
- Affiliations
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), Umeå University, Stockholm Resilience Centre (adjunct/visiting), Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Non-resident Long-term Fellow), Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (visiting), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Associate Director, Center for History of Science), Swedish Institute for Studies in Education and Research (SISTER, founding director), Climate Policy Council (member)
- Memberships
- Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Non-resident Long-term Fellow), Climate Policy Council (member)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umeå University | — | History of Ideas | PhD | 1983–1988 | Sweden |
Umeå University
History of Ideas
Degree:
PhD
Period:
1983–1988
Year of Graduation:
1988
Country:
Sweden
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | August Prize | — | — | August Prize committee | 受賞 |
| 2012 | Lars Salvius award | — | — | Lars Salvius award committee | 受賞 |
| 2011 | Honorary degree | — | — | University of Turku | 名誉博士号授与 |
| 2022 | Honorary degree | — | — | University of Bergen | 名誉博士号授与 |
August Prize
2004
Organization:
August Prize committee
Result:
受賞
Lars Salvius award
2012
Organization:
Lars Salvius award committee
Result:
受賞
Honorary degree
2011
Organization:
University of Turku
Result:
名誉博士号授与
Honorary degree
2022
Organization:
University of Bergen
Result:
名誉博士号授与
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Denationalizing Science: The Contexts of International Scientific Practice
1993 academic non-fictionAn edited volume discussing institutional and cultural contexts of international scientific practice.
history of scienceinternationalizationresearch policy
Sustainability – the Challenge: People, Power, and the Environment
1998 academic non-fictionA collection analyzing sustainability in relation to policy, society, and power structures.
sustainabilityenvironmental policy
Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices
2002 academic non-fictionExamines the relationship between scientific practices and culture in the Arctic and Nordic regions.
Arcticscience and culturehistory
Nature’s End: Environment and History
2009 academic non-fictionDiscusses changing perceptions of nature and human impacts from an environmental history perspective.
environmental historyhuman-nature relations
The Environment: A History of the Idea
2018 academic non-fictionTraces the historical development of the idea of the environment.
history of environmental ideasintellectual history
Ice Humanities: Living, Working and Thinking in a Melting World
2022 academic non-fiction/essaysMultifaceted discussion of human life and cultural and intellectual responses to changes in the Arctic.
Arcticclimate changecultural history
Bibliography
- Denationalizing Science: The Contexts of International Scientific Practice
- Sustainability – the Challenge: People, Power, and the Environment
- Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices
- Knowledge Society vs. Knowledge Economy
- Nature’s End: Environment and History
- The Environment: A History of the Idea
- Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies
- Ice Humanities: Living, Working and Thinking in a Melting World
- Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities: The New Extractivist Paradigm
- Stockholm and the Rise of Global Environmental Governance - The Human Environment
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Analytical academic prose grounded in scholarship, while also using accessible narrative techniques in popular non-fiction.
- Recurring Motifs
- environment and perceptions of natureArctic and polar regionsrelations between science, technology and societyresearch policy and higher education politics
Legacy
Contributed to establishing and developing environmental history in Sweden and is regarded as a public intellectual who bridges history of science, environmental humanities, and policy. Influential in Arctic studies and research policy debates.
Academic Societies
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (associated institutions)
- Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Non-resident Long-term Fellow)
Trivia
- Edited the popular science magazine Tvärsnitt between 1986 and 1991.
- In 1993 assumed the first chair in environmental history in Scandinavia.
- Awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Turku (2011) and the University of Bergen (2022).