Melina Antonia Buns

• Buns, Melina Antonia (2017). Marching Activists: Transnational Lessons for Danish Anti-Nuclear Protest. Arcadia.  ISSN 2199-3408.  (Summer 18) . doi: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/7918 Vis sammendrag

  On 26 and 27 August 1978, the Danish anti-nuclear movement witnessed its greatest—both in terms of the number of participants and political impact—protest marches against the establishment of nuclear power plants in Denmark. The internationally connected Danish movement drew on lessons from experiences made in other countries; it integrated and adapted them to their social norms and political situation. Hence, the Danish anti-nuclear movement was characterized by non-violent protests, information campaigns, and the development of alternative energy plans based on scientific evidence, as well as respectful political discussion, which was eventually able to prevent the establishment of nuclear power plants in Denmark.

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• Buns, Melina Antonia (2021). Review of Wenkel, Christian; Bussière, Eric; Grisoni, Anahita; Miard-Delacroix, Hélène, eds. The Environment and the European Public Sphere: Perceptions, Actors, Policies.. H-Net Reviews.  ISSN 1538-0661.
• Buns, Melina Antonia (2021). The emergence of Nordic environmental cooperation, 1967-1974. nordics.info.  ISSN 2597-016X.
• Buns, Melina Antonia (2020). Green Internationalists: Nordic Environmental Cooperation. Vis sammendrag

  This thesis explores institutionalised Nordic environmental cooperation, its dynamics and character, and its international entanglement, in the years 1967 to 1988. In contrast to national and comparative studies, it adopts a genuine Nordic perspective by analysing Nordic environmental cooperation through the Nordic Council and Nordic Council of Ministers, also applying a transnational approach by building on extensive international archival research and Nordic Council records. With transnational atmospheric pollution as its main environmental case, the analysis focuses on four aspects in particular: First, the emergence and institutionalisation of Nordic environmental cooperation; second, Nordic involvement in international environmental politics highlighting how international cooperation served both national interests and the (self-)promotion of the Nordic region as global environmental frontrunners; third, the crucial role of science in policy-making; and finally, the inherent tensions between environmental concerns and economic growth in the Nordic social democratic welfare states. The thesis argues that the interests and ulterior motives to this international environmental commitment of the Nordics have not been as ‘green’ as generally claimed. The analysis shows that environmental cooperation initially emerged primarily for reasons of political economy. Over the course of the two decades covered here, institutionalised Nordic cooperation offered both a forum for the exchange and dissemination of policy ideas and concerns that served to advance environmental protection, and provided a common ground for Nordic cooperation at international level. The thesis shows that Nordic cooperation has made decisive contributions to the distribution and development of scientific knowledge, of environmental law and of environmental policies. However, instead of environmental pioneers, the thesis proposes to describe the Nordic countries as green internationalists: the Nordics used their cooperation in order to protect their own national environmental interests – motivated more substantively by economic rather than by ecological concerns. Furthermore, despite their environmentalist rhetoric, in a number of cases the Nordics failed to translate their demands promoted at the international level into effective policy internally at the regional level.

• Buns, Melina Antonia (2020). Klimaaktivisterne skal lære af deres historiske forgængere og kræve et opgør med systemet. Dagbladet Information.  s 12- 13

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