The Environment & Society Portal

About us

The Environment & Society Portal is a gateway to open-access resources about human participation in, and understandings of, the environment. It makes environmental humanities research accessible to academic communities and the interested public worldwide, reaching more than two million users. In addition to its peer-reviewed born digital publications (Arcadia and Virtual Exhibitions) and the Rachel Carson Center’s journal RCC Perspectives, the Portal curates scholarly and popular materials in its Multimedia Library. Users can explore this content via traditional searching and browsing, or by experimenting with the Portal’s three discovery tools (map, timeline, and keyword explorer) to find spatially, temporally, and thematically related results. The Portal is the open-access digital publication platform and archive of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), a nonprofit joint initiative of the LMU (University of Munich) and the Deutsches Museum. As such, it reflects the research themes of the RCC and its fellows, who are international experts in related fields. Fellows are involved in contributing to the Portal and curating its content.