The International Panel on Environmental History & Policy (EnvHist4P) is a global network of interdisciplinary scientists researching the relationship between past societies and their environmental history.
We are concerned in particular with past societal responses and adaptations to environmental stress, especially climatic change and epidemics. Our focus is on the Late Holocene, that is the last 3,000 years, the most recent period of human history, during which the first complex modern civilisations and economic systems emerged, leading into socio-economic globalisation, the Industrial Revolution and the onset of the Anthropocene.
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Events 2022
Environmental History Meets Public Policy
22 March – 21 June 2022 | A series of training webinars ending with a hybrid stakeholder debate.
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Closing discussion among webinar participants
Chair: Adam Izdebski, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany