Research

The UniFR_ESH Institute researches environmental challenges relating to climate, biodiversity, food systems, and animal welfare from the interdisciplinary perspective of environmental humanities. The research has two main areas of focus.

  • One focus is placed on questions of justice and conceptual issues relating to the differentiation of responsibilities in dealing with environmental challenges. The overarching goal of this research is to develop ethically sound and interdisciplinary solutions to environmental challenges from a wide range of policy and life areas as well as scientific disciplines.
  • A second focus lies in the cultural significance of environmental challenges. The central question is how social narratives attribute both positive and negative ethical, aesthetic, and affective values to biodiversity. This research aims to contribute to a non-polarizing discourse by studying different strategies for communicating biodiversity.

Environmental Justice in an Interdisciplinary Context


Institutions for Sustainable Policy


Ethical Decision-Making in Environmental Practice


Ethics for Animals and the Environment


Narratives and Communication on Biodiversity 


Environmental Disvalues


Environmental Research Prize


Publications


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