Pollution: Legal, Historical and Literary Perspective

In recent years, industrial environmental damage has characterized the news stream and the political debate. This applies, among other things, to the Nordic Waste scandal, the discharge of greenhouse gases and large amounts of nitrogen from agriculture, and from the 1960s until today pollution from the chemical company Cheminova at Harboøre Tange. 

But what significance has Danish society's structure and self-understanding as a "welfare state" had on the environmental policy pursued and on the population's different experiences of pollution?
In this panel discussion, we start a dialogue between different professional areas with a view to providing different perspectives on pollution than the one that dominates in Christiansborg and in the public debate. We start from the question of how pollution is understood and addressed within literature, history and law.

The panel discussion will include author Liv Nimand Duvå, who has recently published the critically acclaimed novel "Down from the Sky" (Danish title), environmental historian Sebastian Lundsteen Nielsen from the University of Copenhagen, and environmental lawyer Bent Ole Gram Mortensen from the University of Southern Denmark. Professor of history Niklas Olsen will moderate the conversation.

The event is open to everyone and takes place at CApE – Center for Applied Ecological Thinking in læderstræde 20, Copenhagen. (Conference hall 1st floor)