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The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) is an international, interdisciplinary center for research and education in environmental humanities located in Munich, Germany. It was founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) and the Deutsches Museum, and is generously supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The center is named after the American biologist, nature writer, and environmentalist Rachel Carson, whose accessible writing raised awareness worldwide about threats to the environment and human health. The Rachel Carson Center aims to advance research and discussion concerning the interaction between human agents and nature, and to strengthen the role of the humanities in current political and scientific debates about the environment. By bringing together scholars who work in various disciplines and national contexts, and communicating the results of their research, the RCC seeks to internationalize environmental humanities and to raise its profile as a globally significant and growing field.
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An Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds from 2012-07-05T19:08:58
How have humans changed rivers throughout history, andwhat issues of social and environmental justice shape human interaction with rivers and, more generally, water? These questions shape the resea...
ListenAn Environmental History of the Danube from 2012-05-04T00:00
Carson Fellow Martin Schmid discusses his work on writing the first environmental history of the Danube river; Schmid’s research is part of a larger project on the Danube at the Alpen-Adria-Univers...
ListenManifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America from 2011-11-19T00:00
Climate had a key role in shaping the settlement and development of the West in the United States, according to Carson Fellow Lawrence Culver. By using historical sources, including government land...
ListenTransforming Socialist Landscape from 2011-11-08T00:00
The transition from socialism to post-socialism has affected many aspects of life in Eastern Europe. By using anthropological participant-observer methodologies, Carson Fellow Stefan Dorondel looks...
ListenNeurohistory from 2011-05-10T00:00
The intersection between neuroscience and history frames Carson Fellow Edmund P. Russell’s research project. Russell looks as the role of functional magnetic resonance imagining (FMRI) in historica...
ListenBritish Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Poets from 2011-05-09T00:00
In a unique approach to exploring transformations in land use, Carson Fellow Anne Milne uses poetry from the laboring class in eighteenth century Britain to understand different perceptions of natu...
ListenAn Environmental History of Hungary from 2011-05-05T00:00
Carson Fellow Lajos Rácz explains the importance of climate history for the overall history of early modern Hungary. Documented climate data has only been in existence since the nineteenth century;...
ListenNature Conservation: The Influence of American Philosophies on Modern China from 2011-05-05T00:00
How have US American ideas about nature conservation influenced the conception of nature in China? Carson Fellow Hou Shen bases her research around the nature writings of three well-known American ...
ListenParadigmatic Shifts in Western Europe: The Importance of the New World from 2011-05-02T00:00
Carson Fellow Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the New World dramatically shaped the very idea of freedom; it significantly altered perceptions of nature, economic growth, and concepts o...
ListenFish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe from 2011-05-02T00:00
Exposing a phenomenon overlooked by many historians, Carson Fellow Donald Worster explains the importance of New World resources on Western European society in the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...
ListenFacing Limits: Abundance, Scarcity, and the American Way of Life from 2011-05-02T00:00
Carson Fellow and environmental historian Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the “New World” in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the most important event in modern history. The...
ListenAdaptation of Local Knowledge Societies and Systems to Global Change from 2011-04-26T00:00
Carson Fellow and Director of the Global Diversity Foundation Gary Martin examines the cultural implications of conservation designation (i.e. the system of preserving certain areas of land in nati...
ListenHard Asphalt and Heavy Metals: An Environmental History of the Urban Crisis from 2010-11-09T00:00
Carson Fellow Robert Gioelli highlights how central city residents in the United States dealt with increasing environmental problems in the 1960s and 1970s. He focuses on three case studies—St. Lou...
ListenEnvironmental Mobility History in the Making from 2010-09-07T00:00
Carson Fellow Gijs Mom describes his work on the automobile, which he sees as a vehicle for understanding how people in the early twentieth century both perceived and conquered nature. Mom relies o...
ListenImage Film from 2009-01-01T00:00
Visit the RCC virtually! Shot in Munich, this film outlines the goals of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, highlights the research of the international Carson Fellows, profiles ...
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