About Us
The Centre for Environmental History and Development (CEHD) aims to enhance our multi-disciplinary research capacity and facilitate inter-institutional collaboration in certain key areas such as environmental history and quantitative history and help to position us in the global academic discourse by building a supporting infrastructure that will allow us to work closely with the international scholars and play a leading role in advancing some researches globally.
Collaboration in researchers is central to the CEHD’s success. We will develop a number of research themes that link our faculty and students by their shared interests and increase the scale and scope of our research activity through collaboration, critical review, and scholarly dissemination. The major research themes listed below are the focal point temporarily chosen not only for developing team-based projects but also for promoting interdisciplinary researches at LU:
Quantitative History.
We aim to propel the research of quantitative history in multiple ways and build up a bridge between historians and social scientists at LU that will cover a broad range of topics in history and produce the fruitful outcomes.
Environment study (related to the environmental and urban history grant application).
The CEHD’s researchers will explore the human interaction with the nature in both the past and the present to highlight the significance of the sustainable development. We also expect to combine our researchers’ specialties in environmental history and environmental economics together to make a unique contribution to the international circle of environment study. We will develop our focus on two key macro-regions: North China and the Greater Bay Area
Comparative political economy and local governance.
This global and comparative perspective allows us to encompass key events and processes that have shaped political modernity in China and Europe, esp. the different paths in state formation. We are also interested in the comparison of governance at the local level of the East and West and pay particular attentions to economic consequences of elite politics and the historical origins of long-run economic development in China.