Draft:Conservation Humanities

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Conservation Humanities is an interdisciplinary research field found within humanities disciplines such as environmental history, ecocriticism, and anthropology that addresses questions about nature conservation practices, issues, and challenges.[1] It specifically advocates the necessity of involving the humanities in the effort to conserve biodiversity and halt species loss.[2] Beyond its thematic interest in nature protection, Conservation Humanities practice is based on close involvement with conservation practictioners and to dialogue between humanities scholarship and conservation on the ground.[3]

Conservation Humanities can be considered a part of the recent environmental turn across disciplines. As such, it is closely related to the Environmental Humanities. Like Environmental Humanities, it employs interdisciplinary set of approaches that embed humanities scholarship in the context of concern about climate change and environmental degradation.[4]

Emergence and Institutionalisation of Conservation Humanities

Conservation Humanities is an emerging field of inquiry. It has its roots in Environmental History, in particular in the study of the historical development of national parks.[5][6][7][8] The term Conservation Humanities was first institutionalised by the interdisciplinary project Corridor Talk: Conservation Humanities and the Future of Europe's National Parks, which was based at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at LMU Munich and the University of Leeds between 2020 and 2023. It has developed into a full research focus at the University of Oulu in Finland, where the research programme Biodiverse Anthropocenes[9] brings together social and natural sciences to investigate biodiversity loss.

References

  1. ^ Huggan, Graham; George Holmes (2025). What Are Conservation Humanities? Preliminary Reflections on an Emerging Paradigm.
  2. ^ Holmes, George; et al. (2021). Mainstreaming the Humanities in Conservation. Vol. 36. doi:10.1111/cobi.13824. PMID 34425030.
  3. ^ Holm, Poul; Joni Adamson; Hsinya Huang; Lars Kirdan; Sally Kitch; Iain McCalman; James Ogude; Marisa Ronan; Dominic Scott; Kirill Ole Thompson; Charles Travis; Kirsten Wehner (2015). Humanities for the Environment: A Manifesto for Research and Action.
  4. ^ Holmes, George; et al. (2017). Understanding Conservationists' Perspectives on the New Conservation Debate. Vol. 31. pp. 353–363. Bibcode:2017ConBi..31..353H. doi:10.1111/cobi.12811. PMC 6849763. PMID 27558699.
  5. ^ Gissibl, Bernhard; Sabine Höhler; Patrick Kupper, eds. (2012). Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective. Berghahn.
  6. ^ Jørgensen, Dolly (2015). Rethinking Rewilding.
  7. ^ Piňosová, Jana (2021). Inspiration Natur. Naturschutz in den böhmischen Ländern bis 1933 (in German). University of Pittsburgh Press.
  8. ^ Kupper, Patrick and Anna-Katharina Wöbse (2022). Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century – A Handbook. De Gruyter.
  9. ^ https://www.oulu.fi/en/research/biodiverse-arctic-and-global-resilience/biodiverse-anthropocenes

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