Environmental hermeneutics is a term for a wide range of scholarship that applies the techniques and resources of the
philosophical field of
hermeneutics to environmental issues. That is to say it addresses issues of interpretation as they relate to
nature and environmental issues broadly conceived to include
wilderness,
ecosystems,
landscapes,
ecology, the built environment (
architecture),
life, embodiment, and more. Work in
environmental philosophy,
ecocriticism,
environmental theology,
ecotheology, and similar disciplines may overlap the field of environmental hermeneutics.