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 8: PDF Print E-mail

 

Supplemental readings for Chapter 8, Globalization is Environmental [page numbers in brackets]

  • All selections in Chapter 1, Climate Shock, [17] Go
  • Peter M. Vitousek et al., from “Human Domination of Earth’s Ecosystems” (1997) (11), [365] Go
  • Mark Kurlansky, from “With Mouth Wide Open” in Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (1997) (11), [386] Go
  • Michael B. McElroy, from “Industrial Growth, Air Pollution, and Environmental Damage: Complex Challenges for China” (1998) (14), [518] Go
  • Sharon Guynup, “Arctic Life Threatened by Toxic Chemicals, Groups Say” (2002) (15), [551] Go
  • Keystone Essay: Rachel Carson, from “The Real World Around Us” (1954), [557] Go
  • Lynn White, Jr., from “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis” in Machina Ex Deo: Essays in the Dynamism of Western Culture (1968) (16), [573] Go
  • Wendell Berry, “The Gift of Good Land” in The Gift of Good Land (1981) (16), [575] Go
  • Kate Soper, from What Is Nature? Culture, Politics, and the Non-Human (1995) (17), [596] Go
  • Wallace Stevens, “The Planet on the Table” (1953) (18), [642] Go
  • Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., from The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1972) (19), [661] Go
  • Zygmunt J. B. Plater et al., “The Three Economies” in Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society (1998) (21), [727] Go
  • Ranee K. L. Panjabi, from The Earth Summit at Rio: Politics, Economics, and the Environment (1997) (21), [732] Go
  • Lynton Caldwell, from “Environmental Aspects of International Law” in International Environmental Policy: Emergence and Dimensions (1990) (22), [748] Go
  • C. M. Abraham and Sushila Abraham, from “The Bhopal Case and the Development of Environmental Law in India” (1991) (22), [753] Go
  • Herman Daly, from Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development (1996) (23), [777] Go
  • Barry Commoner, from The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology (1971) (24), [815] Go
  • J. H. Parry, from The Spanish Seaborne Empire (1966) (24), [818] 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
  • Raymond Bonner, from “Whose Heritage Is It?” in At the Hand of Man (1993) (25), [842] Go
  • Rigoberto Queme Chay, from “The Corn Men Have Not Forgotten Their Ancient Gods” (1993) (25), [850] Go
  • U.N. Convention on Environment and Development, Earth Charter Preamble (1991) (26), [884] Go
  • James Gustave Speth, from Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, A Citizen’s Agenda for Action (2004) (26), [885] Go

 

 

 

 

 

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