Environmental humanities: notes towards a summary for policymakers

In 2010, I co-organized an AHRC-funded network entitled “The Cultural Framing of Environmental Discourse.” One of the requirements of the grant was that networks should include both diverse disciplines and participants from outside universities. After a day-long discussion of the public role of the environmental humanities, an attendee from an environmental consultancy firm commented that she found our work fascinating and thought it could play a genuinely constructive role in policymaking: “Could you summarize it on two sides of A4? Because that’s about the attention span of most politicians and CEOs.”