The research themes in Environmental Humanities South (EHS) include:
- African environmental struggles in the age of oligarchy
- Science, corporate power and justice in Africa
- Land restitution as ecopolitics
- The militarisation of conservation
- Histories and politics of energy and development
- Ecology in African literature and arts
- Ecological philosophy in African thought and linguistics
- Critical zone social science
- Building habitability in the decolonising South
- Urban ecologies
- Natural resource management in the Anthropocene
- Slow violence: Toxicity