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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Browse by Chapter

Pt I. Concepts & Case Studies
Ch 1. Climate Shock
Ch 2. Species in Danger: Three Case Studies
Ch 3. Nuclear Power
Ch 4. Biotechnology & Genetically Manipulated Organisms
Ch 5. The Paradox of Sustainable Development
Ch 6. Deforestation
Ch 7. War and Peace: Security at Stake
Ch 8. Globalization Is Environmental
Ch 9. What Is Wilderness and Do We Need It?
Ch 10. The Urban Environment: Calcutta and Los Angeles
Pt II. Foundational Disciplines
Ch 11. Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
Ch 12. Soil and Agriculture
Ch 13. Air and Water
Ch 14. Energy
Ch 15. Toxicology
Ch 16. The Inner Life
Ch 17. Ethics, Philosophy, Gender
Ch 18. Poetry
Ch 19. History and the Environment
Ch 20. Nature Writing
Ch 21. Politics and Public Policy
Ch 22. Law and Environmental Justice
Ch 23. Economics
Ch 24. Human Population
Ch 25. Anthropology
Coda
Ch 26. Conviction and Action

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Ch 1. Climate Shock
Ch 2. Species in Danger: Three Case Studies
Ch 3. Nuclear Power: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the Future
Ch 4. Biotechnology and Genetically Manipulated Organisms
Ch 5. The Paradox of Sustainable Development
Ch 6. Deforestation
Ch 7. War and Peace: Security at Stake
Ch 8. Globalization Is Environmental
Ch 9. What Is Wilderness and Do We Need It?
Ch 10. The Urban Environment: Calcutta and Los Angeles

Web Connections

Pt I. Concepts & Case Studies
Ch 1. Climate Shock
Ch 2. Species in Danger
Ch 3. Nuclear Power
Ch 4. Biotechnology & Genetically Manipulated Organisms
Ch 5. The Paradox of Sustainable Development
Ch 6. Deforestation
Ch 7. War and Peace
Ch 8. Globalization is Environmental
Ch 9. What is Wilderness and Do We Need It?
Ch 10. The Urban Environment
Pt II. Foundational Disciplines
Ch 11. Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
Ch 12. Soil and Agriculture
Ch 13. Air and Water
Ch 14. Energy
Ch 15. Toxicology
Ch 16. The Inner Life
Ch 17. Ethics, Philosophy, Gender
Ch 18. Poetry
Ch 19. History and the Environment
Ch 20. Nature Writing
Ch 21. Politics and Public Policy
Ch 22. Law and Environmental Justice
Ch 23. Economics
Ch 24. Human Population
Ch 25. Anthropology
Coda
Ch 26. Conviction and Action
Keystone Essay: Aldo Leopold, "The Fusion of Lines of Thought": (1935?) PDF Print E-mail


This fragment that Aldo Leopold jotted in a notebook is prescient in many ways. It was written before the two great discoveries in biology and geology of the mid-twentieth century: the nature of the DNA molecule and the theory of plate tectonics and continental drift. It also prophesied the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between humans and the environment, decrying the schism between the developing fields of ecology and economics.


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