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 ...

Video Focus

Interconnections for Chapter 7: PDF Print E-mail

 

Supplemental readings for Chapter 7, War and Peace: Security at Stake [page numbers in brackets]

  • Rodney R. White, from “Water Supply” in North, South and the Environmental Crisis (1993) (13), [486] Go
  • Michael B. McElroy, from “Industrial Growth, Air Pollution, and Environmental Damage: Complex Challenges for China” (1998) (14), [518] Go
  • Kate Soper, from What Is Nature? Culture, Politics, and the Non-Human (1995) (17), [596] Go
  • Ken Saro-Wiwa, from Genocide in Nigeria: The Ogoni Tragedy (1992) (21), [712] Go
  • Richard N. L. Andrews, from Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy (1999) (21), [715] Go
  • Robert D. Bullard, from “Environmental Justice for All” in Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color (1994) (22), [766] Go
  • Thomas R. Malthus, from An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798, revised 1826) (24), [808] Go
  • Jared Diamond, from “Lethal Gift of Livestock” in Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997) (24), [823] Go
  • Joel E. Cohen, from How Many People Can the Earth Support? (1995) (24), [827] Go
  • Joe Kane, from “With Spears from All Sides” (1993) (25), [837] Go
  • Helen Corbett, “The Rights of Indigenous Peoples” (1996) (25), [849] Go
  • U.N. Convention on Environment and Development, Earth Charter Preamble (1991) (26), [884] Go