Author Description

From 2008 to 2012, the German Federal Foundation for the Environment (DBU) funded an environmental ethics focus track within its doctoral fellowship programme. As the present anthology shows, the research topics of the fellows in the focus track reached far beyond the philosophical sub-discipline of environmental ethics - from action and sustainability theory to economics, social science, and literary criticism. In April 2012, a concluding conference organised by the fellows was held at the University of Greifswald. From this conference, the contributions to this volume emerge. Meeting in the fellowship focus track, some of the scholars involved realised for the first time that neighbouring environment-related disciplines in the humanities had taken a road similar to their own specialisation. Even in the sub-group of environmental philosophers, views diverged on what fell inside the boundaries of their field and how to locate in the relation to the natural sciences, empirical social research, and humanities. The present anthology offers insights into the exploratory movements and communication efforts that characterise the development of the environmental humanities to this day.