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

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

Research projects and clusters

Green cross-faculty centres at the University of Copenhagen