Please note that this is an archive. You will find the official publication on this page.
Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review is an open-access online publication for peer-reviewed articles, creative nonfiction, and artistic contributions that survey the interrelationship between environmental and social changes from a wealth of disciplines and perspectives. In the spirit of Rachel Carson, it publishes sharp writing with an impact. It is a place to share rigorous research, test out fresh ideas, question old ones, and advance public and scholarly debates in the environmental humanities and beyond.
Published biannually, Springs features a range of content, from text and photography to audio and video. It also brings together writing from other Rachel Carson Center publications. The Springs archive curates articles that were originally published in the open-access online and print journal RCC Perspectives (2010–20), in the Rachel Carson Center blog Seeing the Woods (2012–21), and in the peer-reviewed online journal Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History.
Springs launched in 2022 as part of a Kolleg-Project funded by the Federal Ministry of Research and Education (Käte Hamburger Kolleg). The project is run by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC).
The information, views, and opinions expressed on Springs are those of the contributing authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Rachel Carson Center and the editorial team.
How do I contribute to Springs?
Submissions to Springs are invited through biannual calls, which are advertised on this page. For more publishing opportunities with the RCC, check out our environmental history journal, Arcadia, or our young scholars’ publication, Seeing the Woods.
Unless otherwise stated, Springs articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
With any questions, please email the editorial team at editors@rcc.lmu.de.
Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review – ISSN 2751-9317