The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities

This Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects from environmental racism and global migration to resource impoverishment and the importance of the nonhuman world. It addresses the twenty-first century recognition of an environmental crisis – its antecedents current forms and future trajectories – as well as possible responses to it. This books foregrounds scholarship from different periods fields and global locations but it is organized to give readers a working context for the foundational debates. Each chapter examines a key topic or theme in Environmental Humanities shows why that topic emerged as a category of study explores the different approaches to the topics suggests future avenues of inquiry and considers the topic''s global implications especially those that involve environmental justice issues.