The Institute creates, and helps individuals and the private sector to practice new solutions to old problems. The society is an international professional organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of the phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss, and restoration of biological diversity. The Society for Range Management is the professional scientific society and conservation organization whose members are concerned with studying, conserving, managing and sustaining the varied resources of the rangelands which comprise nearly half the land in the world. Established in 1948, SRM has over 4,000 members in 48 countries, including many developing nations . The American Society for Environmental History seeks understanding of the human experience of the environment.
Emphasis is on the perspectives of history and the liberal arts and sciences.
The Society encourages dialogue among the disciplines on every aspect of the present and past relationship of humankind to the natural environment. To these ends, the Society organizes conferences and publishes a refereed journal. National meetings take place yearly. With over 13,200 members, ASA encompasses sociologists who are faculty members at colleges and universities, researchers, practitioners, and students. About 20 percent of the members work in government, business, or non-profit organizations.