The Earth Charter
Over a decade in the making, the Earth Charter provides a global vision for a sustainable future.
Over a decade in the making, the Earth Charter provides a global vision for a sustainable future.
The 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm marked a watershed in the evolution of humanity’s relationship with the earth and global concern about the environment. While most of the conference’s accomplishments were mainly rhetorical, its ultimate success was that environmental policy became a universal concern within international diplomacy. Sweden, as the host country, played no minor role in achieving this outcome.
This podcast reports on two sessions from the sixth conference of the ESEH, which took place in Turku, Finland, from 27 June to 2 July 2011.
This guest editorial takes stock of what was achieved since the UN Conference on Environment and Development at Rio, and speculates on the results of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
The First International Conference on Iceberg Utilization, held at Iowa State University in October 1977, contributed to the formation of nascent hydrologics in the late 1970s.
The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) aims to stimulate dialogue between humanistic scholarship, environmental science and other disciplines. It welcomes members from all disciplines and professions who share its interest in past relationships between human culture and the environment.
The American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) promotes scholarship and teaching in environmental history, supports the professional needs of its members, and connects its undertakings with larger communities.
The Australian Environmental Humanities Hub gathers news and events for environmentally interested scholars in Australia and around the world.
Humanidades Ambientales is a website for three Spanish environmental humanities projects. Most of its content is written in both Spanish and English.
ICEHO is an international consortium of organizations interested in the historicity of human-environment interaction.