The environmental humanities is an interdisciplinary area of research, drawing on the many environmental sub-disciplines that have emerged in the humanities over the past several decades. As such, EHI is involved in several fields of study.
The Environmental Humanities Initiative engages a wide range of related fields, including indigenous studies, political ecology, food studies, cultural geography, animal studies, and cultural anthropology, and investigates such keywords as sustainability, the Anthropocene, and the posthuman. Environmental humanities scholars also seek to bridge the divide between academic analysis and practice in the public sphere.