The Environmental History Research Group at Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica is a leading academic group concentrating on a history of interaction between humans/society and nature/environment in Taiwan. It was established in 2000, with the aim of looking at the long-term effects of the interaction between people and the environment in the history of Taiwan. The researchers in this group focus on issues that concern: resource, disease, disaster, species exchange, ecology and pollution crisis in the history of Taiwan. In addition, this group orients itself towards cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. Members often organize research teams with research groups in the Institute of Taiwan History or specialists in disciplines such as humanities, sociology, and natural sciences inside and outside of Academia Sinica. Moreover, they not only rely on conceptual frameworks such as Empire and Science, Technology and Society (STS), Disaster Vulnerability and Resilience, Sustainable Development, and Anthropocene, but also attach importance to the assistance of tools from digital humanities, such as geographic information systems (GIS).