Routledge Environmental Humanities
About the Book Series
From microplastics in the sea to hyper-trends such as global climate change, mega-extinction, and widening social disparities and displacement, we live on a planet undergoing tremendous flux and uncertainty. At the center of this transformation is human culture, both contributing to the state of the world and responding to planetary change. The Routledge Environmental Humanities Series seeks to engage with contemporary environmental challenges through the various lenses of the humanities and to explore foundational issues in environmental justice, multicultural environmentalism, ecofeminism, environmental psychology, environmental materialities and textualities, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, environmental communication and information management, multispecies relationships, and related topics. The series is premised on the notion that the arts, humanities, and social sciences, integrated with the natural sciences, are essential to comprehensive environmental studies.
The environmental humanities are a multidimensional discipline encompassing such fields as anthropology, history, literary and media studies, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, and women’s and gender studies; however, the Routledge Environmental Humanities is particularly eager to receive book proposals that explicitly cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, bringing the full force of multiple perspectives to illuminate vexing and profound environmental topics. We favor manuscripts aimed at an international readership and written in a lively and accessible style. Our readers include scholars and students from across the span of environmental studies disciplines and thoughtful citizens and policy makers interested in the human dimensions of environmental change.
Please contact the Editor, Grace Harrison ([email protected]), to submit proposals.
Praise for A Cultural History of Climate Change (2016):
A Cultural History of Climate Change shows that the humanities are not simply a late-arriving appendage to Earth System science, to help in the work of translation. These essays offer distinctive insights into how and why humans reason and imagine their ‘weather-worlds’ (Ingold, 2010). We learn about the interpenetration of climate and culture and are prompted to think creatively about different ways in which the idea of climate change can be conceptualised and acted upon beyond merely ‘saving the planet’.
Professor Mike Hulme, King's College London, in Green Letters
Series Editors:
Professor Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, USA
Professor Joni Adamson, Arizona State University, USA
Professor YUKI Masami, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan.
Previous editors:
Professor Iain McCalman AO, Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University.
Professor Libby Robin, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra; Guest Professor of Environmental History, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden.
Dr Paul Warde, Reader in Environmental History, University of Cambridge, UK
Editorial Board
Christina Alt, St Andrews University, UK, Alison Bashford, University of New South Wales, Australia, Peter Coates, University of Bristol, UK, Thom van Dooren, University of Sydney, Australia, Georgina Endfield, Liverpool UK, Jodi Frawley, University of Western Australia, Andrea Gaynor, The University of Western Australia, Australia, Christina Gerhardt, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA,□Tom Lynch, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA, Jennifer Newell, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia , Simon Pooley, Imperial College London, UK, Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Ann Waltner, University of Minnesota, US, Jessica Weir, University of Western Sydney, Australia
International Advisory Board
William Beinart,University of Oxford, UK, Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago, USA, Poul Holm, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Shen Hou, Renmin University of China, Beijing, Rob Nixon, Princeton University, USA, Pauline Phemister, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK, Sverker Sörlin, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches Museum, Munich and Co-Director, Rachel Carson Centre, LMU Munich University, Germany, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University, USA, Kirsten Wehner, University of London, UK
Environmental Hermeneutics in the Anthropocene: Nature and the Conflict of Interpretations
1st Edition
Edited
By David Utsler, Forrest Clingerman, Brian Treanor
October 15, 2025
Environmental Hermeneutics in the Anthropocene is a diverse collection of essays that approach contemporary environmental problems with the tools and perspectives provided by the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics, advanced by philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Paul...
Assembling the Archipelago: Heritage in Energy Transitions and Climate Action
1st Edition
By Marilena Mela
September 03, 2025
This book explores the potential of heritage to enact sustainable human-environment relationships across geographical differences. It does so by traveling to four archipelagos: the Wadden Islands in the Netherlands, the Cyclades in Greece, Shetland in Scotland, and the Aeolian Islands in Italy. In...
A Philosophy of Climate Apocalypticism: In and Against the World
1st Edition
By Jakub Kowalewski
May 19, 2025
This book offers a long-overdue analysis of the ubiquity of eco-apocalypticism in current discourses on the climate crisis. Drawing on a wide range of sources and theoretical traditions from ecological works and radical pamphlets, through political theology and continental philosophy to ancient and...
Wild Anthropocene: Literature and Multispecies Justice in Deep Time
1st Edition
By Louise Economides
April 17, 2025
Wild Anthropocene examines four key areas—the politics of deep time, neoliberalism's socio-ecological impacts, global population growth and inter-species entanglement—to demonstrate how literature illuminates progressive solutions to Anthropocene challenges. The book argues that technological ...
Subterranean Imaginaries and Groundwater Narratives
1st Edition
By Deborah Wardle
January 30, 2025
This book interrogates the problems of how and why largely unseen matter, in this case groundwater, has found limited expression in climate fiction. It explores key considerations for writing groundwater narratives in the Anthropocene. The book investigates a unique selection of climate fiction ...
Ecological Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities
1st Edition
Edited
By Simone M. Müller, Matthias Schmidt, Kirsten Twelbeck
December 23, 2024
This book provides a systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of the conflicts, issues, and tensions associated with today’s ecological transformation processes from an Environmental Humanities perspective. It explores the notion of ecological ambivalence, where conflicting reactions, beliefs, or ...
Environmental Humanities in Central Asia: Relations Between Extraction and Interdependence
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeanne Féaux de la Croix, Beatrice Penati
December 18, 2024
This book is the first collection to showcase the flourishing field of environmental humanities in Central Asia. A region larger than Europe, Central Asia possesses an astounding range of environments, from deserts to glaciated peaks. The volume brings into conversation scholarship from history to ...
Exploring Interstitiality with Mangroves: Semiotic Materialism and the Environmental Humanities
1st Edition
By Kate Judith
October 08, 2024
Mangroves thrive in intertidal zones, where they gather organisms and objects from land, river, and ocean. They develop into complex ecologies in these dynamic in-between spaces. Mobilising resources drawn from semiotic materialism and the environmental humanities, this book seeks a form of social ...
Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities
1st Edition
Edited
By Maxine Newlands, Claire Hansen
August 07, 2024
This interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens. The blue humanities is a way of understanding humanity’s relationship with water and manifestations of what is referred to as the ‘blue’ – reefs, oceans, rivers, creeks, ...
Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities
1st Edition
Edited
By Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, Conrad Scott
July 31, 2024
This edited collection, which is situated within the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, brings together utopian and dystopian representations of pandemics from across literature, the arts, and social movements. Featuring analyses of literary works, TV and film, theater, ...
Literature and Ecotheology: From Chaos to Cosmos
1st Edition
By George B. Handley
July 22, 2024
Literature and Ecotheology: From Chaos to Cosmos challenges us in a time of climate crisis to find more common ground between the dual projects of ecocriticism and ecotheology. This book argues that in our postsecular age, literature has become an important repository of theological wisdom that can...
Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters
1st Edition
Edited
By Jelle J.P. Wouters, Dan Smyer Yü
July 17, 2024
Woven together as a text of humanities-based environmental research outcomes, Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater Himalayan region. The collective endeavour of the ...