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ESEH aims to:
- encourage the study of European environmental history in a comparative perspective.
- foster communication among environmenmtal historians across Europe, and with colleagues elsewhere.
- promote the further institutional development of environmental history within secondary and tertiary education.
- promote the research and use of environmental history in academic programmes.
- strengthen the crucial link between environmental history, all policy-making, and the general public.
In order to achieve these goals ESEH has developed a whole range of activities. The society publishes a newsletter, ESEH Notepad, which is quarterly published in the journal Environment and History, published by White Horse Press in Cambridge.
Along with the American Society for Environmental History, ESEH co-ordinates H-Environment, an internet discussion forum that keeps subscribers posted about events and issues related to the field.
ESEH also organises biannual conferences at which scholars from all over Europe and the world gather to share their work. The first meeting was held in September 2001 in St. Andrews, Scotland, UK and was a big success with more than 150 participants from all over the world. This first conference was followed by a second meeting in Prague in 2003 and a third conference in Florence was held in 2005. Information about past conferences can be found in the Conference Archive.
The next conference will be held in Amsterdam in 2007. The conference pages on this website will provide the latest information about the 2007 conference.
Finally ESEH maintains this web site with the aim to provide resources and news for scholars and others interested in environmental history.
A membership of ESEH connects you with other European practitioners of environmental history!
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