GREEN RESESEARCHER PORTRAIT
 

Frederik Appel Olsen’s research focuses on climate and science rhetoric, with particular interest in how scientific authority and activism intersect in climate debates.
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES
 

The humanities provide crucial knowledge about the structures of everyday lives and the resources needed to make human behaviour sustainable.
FOUR RESEARCH MISSIONS
 

Read about the four research missions for the humanities' contribution to the green transition.
GREEN HUMANITIES RESEARCH
 

Read about our research projects, centres and research clusters that focus on green research.

Environmental humanities at the University of Copenhagen provides crucial knowledge about the structures of everyday lives and the resources needed to make human behaviour sustainable.

Environmental humanities brings together perspectives from disciplines such as history, philosophy, ethnography, language and communication in order to ensure popular engagement, green education, and new visions for a sustainable future. 

The environmental crisis is anthropogenic. It is created by human activities, and it needs to be solved through human agency as well. To innovate and embrace sustainable lifestyles, we need comprehensive green solutions: social, cultural, and technological.

Dorthe Gert Simonsen, Associate Dean for Research and Impact

Research centres

Centre for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE)

CApE’s aim is to draw on the humanities’ great reservoirs of knowledge of ethics, imagination, and cultural values to respond to the imminent crisis.

Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF)

CSF’s overall ambition is to generate and disseminate humanities-based research on climate change, socio-environmental crises, and loss of biodiversity. 

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Global sustainable development is only achievable on a collective, local scale. [...] Taking part, however, requires comprehension, the provisioning of which, through education, must therefore be at the forefront and centre of all future endeavours.

Bo Fritzbøger, Sustainable Development of Denmark in the World, 1970–2020, A Critical Introduction

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Research projects and clusters

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Sustainable behaviour: Four missions for the humanities’ contribution to the green transition

UCPH podcasts on climate and sustainability

Theme: UCPH green research and solutions

Green cross-faculty centres at the University of Copenhagen

Centre for Sustainability and Society

Green Solutions Centre

Sustainability Science Center