Research
Environmental Humanities Initiative
The Environmental Humanities (EH) is a wide field of study that engages with central and pressing environmental and human dilemmas as well as with issues of food justice and just sustainability in a time of rapid change. Humanities scholars from different disciplines are at the forefront of the response to climate change and sustainability efforts acknowledging the link between environmental degradation and social inequality. They also strive to find points of contact between the nature-culture separation that underlies traditional conceptions of scientific and humanistic disciplines. Environmental Humanities scholarship has emerged in several institutions of higher learning bringing