ICEHO members include scholarly societies focussed on environmental (e.g., the American and European societies), forest, and water history (including Forest History Society, International Water History Association), scholarly networks, universities, museums, and publishers with lists that include works in environmental history.

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Leading Level Members

Forest History Society

The Forest History Society (FHS) links the past to the future by identifying, collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating information on the history of interactions between people, forests, and their related resources -- timber, water, soil, forage, fish and wildlife, recreation, and scenic or spiritual values. Through programs in research, publication, and education, the Society promotes and rewards scholarship in the fields of forest, conservation, and environmental history while reminding all of us about our important forest heritage.

American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)

The American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) advances understanding of human interactions with the natural world by promoting historical research and teaching, and fostering dialogue about human use of the earth among humanists, social and environmental scientists, and the public. Its efforts benefit humankind by illuminating the past and providing perspective on current environmental issues. ASEH promotes these interests globally through its peer-reviewed journal Environmental History, annual conferences, scholarly awards and fellowships, online discussions, conversations with other professional societies, and public outreach.

Major Level Members

Network in Canadian History and Environment (NICHE)

NiCHE promotes new ways of supporting collaboration among Canadian environmental historians and colleagues in adjacent fields. It also works to ensure that this research is accessible to policymakers, natural scientists, and the Canadian public.

Australian and New Zealand Environmental History Network (EHN)

The Australian & New Zealand Environmental History Network provides a means to communicate with each other and exchange information about forthcoming events and new publications in Australia and New Zealand.

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) is an international, interdisciplinary center for research and education in the environmental humanities and social sciences.

Partner Level Members

University of Wisconsin – Nelson Institute's Center for Culture, History, and Environment

The Nelson Institute's Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) draws together faculty, staff, graduate students, and others from a wide array of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to investigate environmental and cultural change in the full sweep of human history.

Utah State University, Department of History

The Department of History at Utah State University has a long history of work in environmental history, with several faculty members working in international environmental history. The department has a commitment to training undergraduates as well as master’s students in global environmental history.

Centre for Environmental History, ANU

The Australian National University has the best concentration of expertise in interdisciplinary environmental studies in Australia and one of the best in the world. The ANU Colleges of Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific, Law, and Medicine, Biology and the Environment, and the ANU Climate Change Institute have many of the nation’s leading scholars in environmental history, politics and philosophy, the study of landscape change and the ecological humanities. The establishment of a Centre for Environmental History at ANU in late 2009 consolidated existing pioneering initiatives over the past decade and will enable the university to build further on its intellectual leadership in this field. The Centre embraces research and teaching in environmental history, history of science and public history from anywhere in the world, but focuses particularly on Australian experience and perspectives.

The Centre for Environmental History (ZUG) - the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna

The Centre for Environmental History (ZUG) in the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna aims to establish a virtual platform for an Austrian environmental history network. It offers an information platform for scholars and research institutions in Austria, provides links to ongoing research projects and documents Austrian environmental history research.

Basic Level Members

Birmingham Seminar for Environmental Studies

BISEMEH is an open, cross-disciplinary network of scholars at the University of Birmingham who have an interest in environmental research within the broad realm of academia that we commonly call the humanities. It operates primarily through workshops and other academic events that BISEMEH holds in cooperation with other institutions within and beyond the university. This website is intended to advertise upcoming events, record past ones, show the people involved, and say a bit about what we do.

The White Horse Press

The White Horse Press publishes academic journals and books specialising in environmental issues. Their journals include Environment and History, Global Environment, and Environmental Values.

Department of Culture & Global Studies at Aalborg University

The Department of Culture and Global Studies is a cross-faculty department linking together The Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Social Sciences. Department researchers draw on theories and methods from both the social sciences and the humanities in their studies of culture and society: inter-human relations, relations between cultures, local and global relations, relations between the past and the future.

Division of History of Science and Technology at Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

The Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment conducts research and teaching about technology and technological change in a historical perspective. An important point of departure is that technology and science are cultural elements that shape and change the living conditions on earth. Of equal importance is the starting point that historical studies are of crucial importance for understanding contemporary as well as future processes of technological and societal change.

Environmental Humanities Lab at Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

The goal of the EHL is to shape a post-disciplinary intellectual environment that combines education, research and graduate training in innovative ways and sets knowledge in the humanities into action to favour sustainable development. The educational programme aims to train a new generation of historians and others to become capable, integrated environmental humanists.

The Asian Association for Environmental History (AAEH)

The Asian Association for Environmental History (AAEH) was launched on 1 July 2023. It follows a decision made at the General Meeting of the Association held during EAEH 2023 in Daejeon, Korea, to rename the Association for East Asian Environmental History (AEAEH) to the “Asian” Association, covering all of Asia and Oceania.

Southern African History Society

The Southern African Historical Society (SAHS) is focused on generating communication among professional historians with an interest in southern African history whether they are located within the region or further afield. They also welcome members from allied disciplines and professions.

Climate History Network (CHN)

The Climate History Network is an organization of scholars who reconstruct past climate changes and identify how those changes affected human history. The CHN connects academics in many disciplines, from many countries. We encourage more collaborative and interdisciplinary teaching and research in climate history. It offers contacts and resources for professors, teachers, students, and interested lay people.

Environmental History Cluster Austria (EHCA)

EHCA is a network of Austrian environmental historians.

Laboratório História e Natureza (LabHeN, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

The Laboratory of History and Nature (LabHeN) is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, professors, and anyone interested in the field of Environmental History. Linked to the History Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IH / UFRJ), LabHen meets every Thursday afternoon on the academic calendar of UFRJ.

Renmin University of China-Center for Ecological History

International Water History Association

The purpose of IWHA is to encourage, promote, and foster historical understanding of, and research in, the relationship between water and humankind; to foster a stronger relationship between those engaged in water history and water administrators, engineers, scientists, planners and other practitioners; and to foster public awareness of the role of water in world history and to promote public participation in resolving water resource issues.

Network for the Study of Environmental History of Turkey (NEHT)

NEHT is a collection of researchers from institutions in Turkey, Europe, and beyond, both early career and experienced, identifying themselves or showing an interest in the field of Ottoman and Turkish environmental history. As an international and interdisciplinary research platform, it aims to bring researchers in diverse disciplines focusing on different aspects of Ottoman and Turkish environmental history together and to contribute to the understanding of the history of Turkey from the perspective of environmental history.

Laboratories of Immigration, Migration & Environmental History

Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental (SOLCHA)

SOLCHA, the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Environmental History, promotes the study of environmental history in relation to forestry, agriculture, industry, social movements, and nature in Latin American and the Caribbean.

University of British Columbia UBC Press

Nature/History/Society publishes high quality books in environmental history, mainly but not exclusively on Canada. The series is signalled by its title: “Nature” because it takes the natural world seriously; “History” because it aims to foster work that has temporal depth; and “Society” because its essential concern is with the interface between Nature and Society, broadly conceived. The series is avowedly interdisciplinary and is open to the work of anthropologists, ecologists, historians, geographers, literary scholars, political scientists, sociologists, and others whose interests resonate with its mandate. It offers a timely outlet for lively, innovative, and well-written work on the interactions of people and nature through time in North America.

University of Michigan - Environment and War Network

The War and Environment Network connects scholars in environmental history who study the environmental legacies of war.

University of Oklahoma, Department of History

The Department of History at the University of Oklahoma offers degrees at the B.A. and M.A. levels, with four core fields for the Ph.D., including the environmental history of the United States and Latin America. OU’s resources include the Western History Collections, the Carl Albert Center for Congressional Research, and a premier History of Science Collection.

University of Zimbabwe - Department of Economic History

Women in Environmental History Network (WEHN)

Members of the American Society for Environmental History recently organized the Women in Environmental History Network (WEHN) to encourage greater visibility, interaction and support for the women who are active in environmental history. WEHN will collect data about the professional accomplishments of women in environmental history in order to analyze and address barriers, while at the same time supporting and expanding opportunities for success. WEHN will also consider and address non-gendered barriers to success that may affect other subgroups. WEHN hopes to create an open atmosphere for anyone seeking to connect to others working in the field.