About the Institute

Environmental futures are shaped by the ways societies extract, value, govern, and imagine land and natural resources. This research examines energy systems, critical minerals, extraction, infrastructure, and environmental justice alongside the histories, cultures, institutions, and conflicts that sustain them.

From fossil fuels to battery supply chains, our researchers investigate how resource economies transform landscapes, communities, and political life, and how more equitable futures might be imagined.

Climate change is understood through stories, media, politics, education, and public debate. This research examines how environmental knowledge is produced, communicated, challenged, and acted upon across contemporary information systems.

Researchers investigate misinformation, trust, expertise, public engagement, digital media, and new forms of storytelling that shape how societies understand environmental change.

The past shapes environmental futures. This research explores the histories, ideas, institutions, and cultural traditions that continue to influence climate politics, environmental governance, and public life today.

By examining archives, literature, policy, and historical experience, researchers recover overlooked possibilities and develop richer understandings of environmental change across time.