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Environmental humanities concern ecological issues, especially in response to the climate crisis, and human/environment and culture/nature interactions. Materials on environmental humanities are represented across the Library’s print and online collections in the form of primary texts, secondary works, journals and databases. The subject is found across many of the Library’s collections including literature, history, social sciences, and philosophy, and within the various regional collections: Commonwealth studies, Latin American studies, and U.S. studies.    

The Library's Special Collections and Archives provide material on environmental history, environmental activism and human’s relationship with the natural world that can be reconsidered from an ecocritical perspective. 

Locating and accessing material   

Print and e-books are found across the subject collections. 

• The literature collections include works of and about nature writing, ecocriticism, and the Anthropocene.  
• Located on the 5th floor for and and 6th floor for and literature. 
• The history collection includes works that highlight global and regional approaches to the history of the human impact on the environment and human interactions with the environment. This includes subject areas such as agricultural history, economic history, the history of trade and empire, food history, landscape history, climate history, and animal history, located on the  
• Social sciences and cultural studies include works on political, social and cultural ecology, radical environmentalism, environmental philosophy and anthropology, ecofeminism and women & environmental movements, environmental and conservation psychology. 
• Located on the 5th floor for and and the 7th floor for social sciences and cultural studies. 

New books for all subjects are on the 4th floor in the New Acquisitions area in the . 

A guide to titles in the collections on environmental Humanities can be found . 

Browse a gallery of images from the Special Collections on the theme of Environmental Humanities . 

Journals and articles 

Search for print and electronic journal titles on the Use the to discover articles and chapters from databases and bibliographies. 

eBooks and E-resources 

Search for ebook on the and on our main ebook platform, . 

The Library subscribes to a range of full-text and bibliographical resources to support your research. These include collections of digitised journals, historic books and archives, news sources, bibliographies and specialist resources. Browse a selection of databases for Environmental Humanities and check the A to Z list of Databases for all resources.