In recent years the widely held misconception of the media as an 'ephemeral' industry has been challenged by research on the industry's significant material footprint. Despite this material turn, no systematic study of this sector has been conducted in ways that considers the role of the media industries as consumers and utilizers of a range of natural resources.

Filling this lacuna, this book discusses the environmental management of the Nordic media industries. These countries, both as a set of small nations and as a regional constellation, are frequently perceived as some of the...