Coastal TALES asks: How can stories of past practices help people rediscover more sustainable ways of living in their rapidly changing coastal environments? Our goal is to show how heritage stories can be used to create tangible local action that individuals everywhere can enact to help adapt to the changing climate.
The Cologne Hub is a Thematic Hub focusing on PLANETARY WELL-BEING: HEALTHY PEOPLE, RESILIENT COMMUNITIES, RECOVERING ECOLOGIES.
The CCHRI is glad to announce that our inaugural postdoctoral researcher, Kate Snow, began her position in April 2024 as a member of the International Advisory Panel on Environmental History and Policy
In June 2023 the BRIDGES Coalition began scoping humanities-led sustainability science projects from different regions around the world that address the realities of vulnerable communities and regional territories impacted by social and environmental pressures.
The book "Plants Matter: Exploring the becoming of Plants and People” Edited by Dr Luci Attala and Professor Louise Steel. University of Wales Press; is part of the “Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology” series. Plants Matter explores how plants and people live together. This is not only a book about the importance of plants and how people use them, but it argues also that knowing the world is achieved-with plants. In addition to populating the landscape, plants alter human physiology in multiple material ways, through gatherings or through sensorial conversations using the chemistry of taste, perfume, colour, sound and textures.
