Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) is an international, interdisciplinary center for research and education in the environmental humanities located in Munich, Germany. It was founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich and the Deutsches Museum, and it is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The center is named after the American biologist, nature writer, and environmentalist, Rachel Carson.

The RCC's directors are Christof Mauch of LMU Munich and Helmuth Trischler of the Deutsches Museum. Since the introduction of the LMU Chair of Environmental Humanities in 2023, Sonja Dümpelmann has also joined the RCC as a director. Provided by Wikipedia