Research Organizations
Research Centers and Institutes
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society is a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum designed to further research and discussion in the field of international environmental studies and to strengthen the role of the humanities in the current political and scientific debates about the environment
The Center for Culture, History and Environment (CHE) is a research center within the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which draws together faculty, staff, graduate students, and others from a wide array of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to investigate environmental and cultural change in the full sweep of human history.
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable
Environmental Humanities Center at Cappadocia University is a site where inter/trans/cross-disciplinary and international conversations will be reinforced through collaborations. The Center will seek to offer new perspectives to the entangled ecological urgencies and ethical and social problems surrounding our fragile planet.
The Sydney Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of Sydney aims to address the key questions of our time: how do we understand and redesign the fundamental relationship between human communities and the natural world that supports them; and how can people and societies adapt positively to environmental change?
Educational Organizations and Research Networks
The International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) strives to advance research and education in the field of environmental ethics and philosophy, and to promote appropriate human use, respect, conservation, preservation, and understanding of the natural world
The Australian Environmental Humanities Hub is a central site for the gathering, dissemination and coordination of news, events, short courses and other happenings in this emerging field.
The American Society for Environmental History increases understanding of the important role played by the environment throughout human history, from the earliest period to the crucial issues of our own time. Founded in 1977, the ASEH is a non-profit scholarly organization that promotes research and teaching as well as public outreach
Cultures of Energy is the website of the Center for Energy and Environment Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University. They post resources, reviews, and field reports relevant to scholars and students in the field of environmental humanities.
Environmental Humanities: A Transatlantic Research Network serves as a platform for making the cross-cultural and historical study of environmental issues a central concern of the humanities and profiling the ways in which humanities research can be useful, even essential, for the scientific and political dimension of these concerns
Humanities for the Environment (HfE) Observatories The aim of the HfE Observatories is to identify, explore, and demonstrate the contributions that humanistic and artistic disciplines make to solving global social and environmental challenges. There are now eight observatories worldwide: North American, Latin American, Circumpolar, European, African, East Asia, Asia-Pacific, and Australia-Pacific.
Mapungbwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) is an independent research institute that takes a long-term view on the strategic challenges facing South Africa
The Stanford Environmental Humanities Project provides a forum for an interdisciplinary approach to environmental issues and foregrounds recent work of humanities scholars in disciplines such as cultural studies, history, literary studies, philosophy and anthropology that has engaged with environmental problems, and explores how this research contributes to current discussions about ecological crisis
European Environmental Humanities Alliance connects humanities research in Europe with the challenges of global environmental change