He is the author of The Power of The Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
This interdisciplinary book explores the history of environmental sciences in Norway from the publishing of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring until the Rio Conference in 1992.
[2][3] In 2022 he published a book in Norwegian, Livet er best ute: Friluftslivets Historie og filosofi (Kagge 2022).
[5] While at New York University, he published From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design and The Power of The Periphery.
For his work in environmentalism, Anker was interviewed by Adam Curtis for a BBC TV Documentary, “How the ‘ecosystem’ myth has been used for sinister means.