CESH puts Bard’s dedication to the environment, science, and social change into practice to support the fair management of our shared natural resources. We solve problems using tools that span academic disciplines. We conduct quantitative research in the natural and social sciences, craft communication, participate in policy making, and bridge academic inquiry with community need. In doing our work, we strive to shift the understanding of “environment” to include humans and the urban ecosystem. And we recognize that real solutions to environmental issues must acknowledge the barriers that race, class, and gender inequities present to the cultural shifts required to make real change.
The contemporary environmental movement has not successfully addressed the key environmental issues that humanity is faced with. Continuing to maintain the environmental status quo will not allow us to adapt in the ways we must to negotiate climate change while also addressing long-term issues including hunger, poverty, and income disparity.
The Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities includes faculty, staff, and students at Bard College as well as community members from throughout the New York Hudson Valley region.
Director
Community Lab Technician
Community Sciences Lab
Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities
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Intern
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Our research relies on collaborations with community members, including natural, social, and citizen scientists; artists; regulatory agency representatives; municipal leaders; NGO staff members; and generous funders. These collaborators reside and work in communities and academic institutions in the water-rich Hudson Valley, the people-rich New York City area, and other areas across the United States and around the world.
Janet Holden Adams Fund, NASA, Hudson River Foundation, Brinson Foundation, Eppley Foundation, New York State Environmental Protection Fund, NYSERDA, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences Program, Bard College Sustainability Council, Bard College Experimental Humanities Program, and the Red Hook Conservation Advisory Council.
We conduct quantitative research in the natural and social sciences, craft communication, participate in policy making, and bridge academic inquiry with community need. In doing our work, we strive to shift the understanding of “environment” to include humans and the urban ecosystem. And we recognize that real solutions to environmental issues must acknowledge the barriers that race, class, and gender inequities present to the cultural shifts required to make real change.
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Building on a 160-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College’s mission has expanded across the country, around the world, and to meet broader student needs
Bard College seeks to inspire curiosity, a love of learning, idealism, and a commitment to the link between higher education and civic participation. The undergraduate curriculum is designed to address central, enduring questions facing succeeding generations of students. Academic disciplines are interconnected through multidisciplinary programs; a balance in the curriculum is sought between general education and individual specialization. Students pursue a rigorous course of study reflecting diverse traditions of scholarship, research, speculation, and artistic expression. They engage philosophies of human existence, theories of human behavior and society, the making of art, and the study of the humanities, science, nature, and history.
Annandale-on-Hudson
New York 12504-5000
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