Resources

This page contains a range of resources related to Environmental Humanities at the University of Victoria and beyond

Projects

Zhongping Chen Rural China’s Rise and Fall during the Little Ice Age: Human-environmental Interactions and Economic Change in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1850. Funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant.
Loren McClenachan Pacific Cod Historical Ecology and Climate History. Funded by the US National Science Foundation. This project integrates archival, archaeological, and traditional Indigenous knowledge into management for Pacific cod in Alaska. As part of this project, my collaborators and I used historical archival records to assess ecological drivers of past changes in Pacific cod to inform modern management
Loren McClenachan Climate Impacts and Adaptation in the American Lobster Fishery. Funded by the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. This set of projects uses fishers’ local ecological knowledge to better understand range-changing species and their impacts on local food webs, as well as perceptions of tradeoffs among renewable energy production, endangered species protection, and preserving a fair future for fisheries.

Heyd, Thomas. “Climate Change and the Environmental Humanities.” In Handbook of Philosophy of Climate Change, edited by Gianfranco Pellegrino and Marcello Di Paola. Handbooks in Philosophy. Springer International Publishing, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16960-2_111-1.
Heyd, Thomas. “Precursors and Antecedents of the Anthropocene.” Social Sciences 11, no. 7 (2022): 286. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11070286.
McClenachan, Loren, Bruce Anderson, Jason Addison, et al. “‘The Fish That Stop’: Drivers of Historical Decline for Pacific Cod and Implications for Modern Management in an Era of Rapidly Changing Climate.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 380, no. 1930 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0278.
McClenachan, Loren, Benjamin Neal, Marissa McMahan, Ellie Batchelder, Neida Villanueva‐Galarza, and Jonathan Grabowski. “Fishers’ Local Ecological Knowledge Reveals Complex Food Web Dynamics With Rapidly Warming Waters.” Fish and Fisheries, September 7, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.70021.