New History and Sustainability Website

History and Sustainability

www.historyandsustainability.org

Research and Resources for Environmental History and Education for Sustainable Development.

A new website and project on the theme of 'History and Sustainability' has been launched at the Centre for History and Economics, King's College, University of Cambridge, UK. This project has emerged from the earlier 'Documenting Environmental Change' project (www.envdoc.org)

Since the report of the Brundtland Commission in 1987, the idea of 'Sustainable development' or 'Sustainability' has become increasingly prominent across the globe, applied and discussed at a trans-national, international, national, regional and community level. Yet historians have as yet contributed relatively little to these debates, despite the emergence since the 1970s of Environmental History as an increasingly important strand of the discipline.

Historians of all places and periods have, however, much to contribute to our knowledge of the human experience in attempting to live 'sustainably'. This site and project provides resources and links to those interested in more closely learning from, and enriching the humanities and history in particular in our understanding of the long history and possibly long future of human and environmental interactions.

The History and Sustainability project seeks to bring together environmental, economic and social historians, historians of political thought, anthropologists and others to address these questions.

The project also seeks to build links between different educational providers within and without academia, in developing the study of History and Sustainability.

The website provides links, resources, papers, course profiles and research and events news in the UK and international community for environmental historians and sustainability studies. We are delighted to receive
suggestions for links or work in this field!

Project co-ordinator: Paul Warde (psw1000@cam.ac.uk)