La colonie interne du Norrland suédois: modèle d'une périphérie extractive?

Abstract

This article deals with the historical and current socio-economic situation of the northern interior of Sweden. Its forestal resources,hydro-energy and minerals have all been heavily extracted to the benefit of the Swedish state, forming a basis for the development of Sweden as a highly modernised wellfare-state. The environmental, cultural and economic costs for the Norrland regions are here analysed from the perspective of world system theory, seeing accumulation of wealth in central regions as dependent on the deprivation of geographical and economic peripheries. Today, the high-days of the extraction era are over, and researchers, politicians and civilians all suggest different solutions

Published in

L'Espace Politique
2007, number: 2, pages: 83-95 Publisher: Commission de géographie politique et de géopolitique (CGPG) du Comité National Francais de Géographie (CNFG)

SLU Authors

• Jensen, Ebba Lisberg

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Associated SLU-program

SLU Swedish Biodiversity Centre


Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/24272