Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society is an international, interdisciplinary center for research and education in the field of environmental and social sciences. The affiliated institute of Munich's Ludwig Maximilians University was founded in 2009 as an initiative of the LMU and the Deutsches Museum with the support of the German Ministry of Education in the competition of the Käte Hamburger Kollegs for research in the humanities . The Federal Ministry of Education funded ten humanities research institutes for six years. In the evaluation at the end of the first funding period, the Rachel Carson Center received the highest number of points for its work and received federal funding for the maximum possible second funding period of a further six years. In an agreement with the federal government, the Ludwig Maximilians University assumed responsibility and full funding from 2021.
The institute is named after the American biologist, author and environmentalist Rachel Carson (1907–1964), whose writings drew attention to the threats to the environment and human health. The center is located in Munich on Leopoldstrasse , the working language is English. Christof Mauch and Helmuth Trischler have been the directors of the RCC since it was founded .
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The Rachel Carson Center works on environmental history and all other humanities and social sciences with a thematic focus on the environment and nature. It emerged as a reaction to the supremacy of the natural sciences in the environmental sciences and became the center for networking among teachers with a global impact.
It operates an international fellowship program for professors and lecturers from all faculties in the field of activity. PhD positions are advertised to students from Munich as well as internationally and are endowed with scholarships. A certificate program is open to all Munich students who can take environmental sciences as a minor. Mediated by Donald Worster , the inventor of academic environmental history and one of the first Fellows of the RCC, there is an exchange program with the University of Kansas .
Further activities are exhibitions in the Deutsches Museum, the organization of international seminars and regular lectures.
Web links
- Literature by and about Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Rachel Carson Center site
Individual evidence
- ↑ LMU: RCC further funded , June 23, 2014.
- ^ RCC: Environmental Studies Certificate Program