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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Interconnections for Chapter 5: PDF Print E-mail

 

 

Supplemental readings for Chapter 5, The Paradox of Sustainable Development [page numbers in brackets]

  • Keystone Essay: Gifford Pinchot, from “The Birth of Conservation” in Breaking New Ground (published posthumously, 1947), [13] Go
  • The Bible, Genesis 1:20–31 (11), [364] Go
  • Peter M. Vitousek et al., from “Human Domination of Earth’s Ecosystems” (1997) (11), [365] Go
  • Donald Worster, from “Thinking Like a River” in The Wealth of Nature (1993) (11), [381] Go
  • Alfredo Sfeir-Younis and Andrew K. Dragun, from Land and Soil Management: Technology, Economics, and Institutions (1993) (12), [418] Go
  • Richard Manning, from “The Oil We Eat” (2004) (12), [426] Go
  • World Health Organization and UNICEF, from Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment 2000 Report (13), [483] Go
  • Rodney R. White, from “Water Supply” in North, South and the Environmental Crisis (1993) (13), [486] Go
  • Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow, “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next Fifty Years with Current Technologies” (2004) (14), [507] Go
  • Chief Seattle, from “Chief Seattle’s Speech” (reconstructed 1887 [1854]) (16), [571] Go
  • Wendell Berry, “The Gift of Good Land” in The Gift of Good Land (1981) (16), [575] Go
  • Aldo Leopold, from “The Land Ethic” in A Sand County Almanac (1949) (17), [608] Go
  • Leo Marx, from “Sleepy Hollow, 1844” in The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (1964) (19), [656] Go
  • Henry David Thoreau, from “The Bean-Field” in Walden (1854) (20), [686] Go
  • Aldo Leopold, from “Thinking Like a Mountain” in A Sand County Almanac (1949) (20), [689] Go
  • Zygmunt J. B. Plater et al., “The Three Economies” in Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society (1998) (21), [727] Go
  • All selections in Chapter 23, Economics, [774] Go
  • Anup Shah, from Ecology and the Crisis of Overpopulation: Future Prospects for Global Sustainability (1998) (24), [811]Go
  • Joel E. Cohen, from How Many People Can the Earth Support? (1995) (24), [827] Go
  • Rigoberto Queme Chay, from “The Corn Men Have Not ForgottenTheir Ancient Gods” (1993) (25), [850] Go

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