ABSTRACT
The environmental humanities is an emerging interdisciplinary field of enquiry that draws together diverse histories of thought and action to better understand and address our current environmental challenges, while also enriching traditional humanities approaches through a serious engagement with the more-than-human world. Grounded in a rich notion of human lives—embedded in complex systems of meaning, value and understanding—the environmental humanities insists that the environment must be understood as inescapably “cultural,” and as such that contemporary environmental challenges are inseparable from complex questions of ethics, inequality, participation and the politics of knowledge production.
