Quotation by William D. Ruckelshaus, first Environmental Protection Agency Chief Administrator

"Using one discipline to address the environment isn't going to work.  You have to use them all."  ---William D. Ruckelshaus, first Environmental Protection Agency chief Administrator, 1970-1973, also 1983-85, speaking to "Living on Earth," broadcast through Public Radio International

Reviews of the Book

"Until the publication . . . of Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, those searching for an overview of the field had few texts to which they might turn .... "

-Rochelle Johnson in Thoreau Society Bulletin for Fall 2008

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Remarks by the Publisher:

"A comprehensive guide to environmental literacy."

 

Selected as a 2008 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries.

Events

- Professor James Engell to teach a DuPont Seminar at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, on Environmental issues and the humanities ...
- Professor Glenn Adelson to attend the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) meeting ...

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Glenn Adelson PDF Print E-mail
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Co-Editor

Chair, Environmental Studies Department
Lake Forest College

Image Glenn Adelson is the chair of the Environmental Studies Department at Lake Forest College, Chicago’s national liberal arts college. He is also the Director of Science and Education for the Mamoní Valley Preserve in Panama, a project for both biological and cultural conservation and sustainability in partnership with the Kuna indigenous people.

 
In addition to his work as co-editor of Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, Glenn is co-author of Biodiversity: Exploring Values and Priorities in Conservation (Blackwell Science, 1997).In all his writings, he has endeavored to bring the academic disciplines together under the aegis of environmental studies: he has written on biology in conjunction with English literature, with law, with philosophy, and with history. Glenn Adelson taught for fifteen years at Harvard University, where he became the only Harvard teacher to twice win the campus-wide Levenson Award for teaching.

In addition, he has won Harvard’s campus-wide Phi Beta Kappa teaching award. He has also taught at Boston College, Wellesley College, and Brown University.

Glenn Adelson has a Ph.D. in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.