ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES AND ANTHROPOCENE STUDIES: ENVIRONMENTAL WORLDVIEWS AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS 'NATURE'

Environmental humanities and Anthropocene studies on diachronic human-environmental interactions are useful for highlighting how both technological and behavioural responses to extreme climatic events or environmental challenges in the past might inform solutions in the present and future.  Such work also highlights the importance of deeply engrained mindsets and attitudes towards our place in the environment, many of them rooted in historically specific religious or cultural worldviews; some social scientists refer to modern environmentalism as a secular religion.​​​

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FURTHER READING

• Deprez, R. & Thomas, R. 2016. Population Health Improvement: It’s Up To The Community - Not The Healthcare System. Maine Policy Review 25(2): 44–52.

• Latour, B. 2013. Facing Gaia: A New Enquiry into Natural Religion. The Gifford Lectures, Edinburgh.

• Riede, F. 2018. Deep Pasts – Deep Futures: A Palaeoenvironmental Humanities Perspective from the Stone Ages to the Human Age. Current Swedish Archaeology. 26: 11–28.

• Shaw, J. 2018. Environmentalism as Religio-Medical ‘Worldview': New synergies between the Palaeoenvironmental Humanities, Ecological Public Health, and Climate-Change Activism.  Current Swedish Archaeology 26: 61-78.

• Stephens, L., Ellis. E. & Fuller, D. 2020. The Deep Anthropocene. Aeon Magazine 1 Oct. 2020. 

• United Nations. 2019. United Nations Environment Programme, Global Chemicals Outlook II. From Legacies to Innovative Solutions: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Synthesis Report.

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