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 9: PDF Print E-mail

 

Supplemental readings for Chapter 9, What Is Wilderness and Do We Need It? [page numbers in brackets]

  • William Cronon, from “The View from Walden” in Changes in the Land (1983) (11), [377] Go
  • Sharon Guynup, “Arctic Life Threatened by Toxic Chemicals, Groups Say” (2002) (15), [551] Go
  • From the Iroquois Creation Story, as told in David Cusick, Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1827) (16), [567] Go
  • Chief Seattle, from “Chief Seattle’s Speech” (reconstructed 1887 [1854]) (16), [571] Go
  • John Muir, from “Hetch Hetchy Valley” in The Yosemite (1912) (17), 606 Aldo Leopold, from “The Land Ethic” in A Sand County Almanac (1949) (17), [608] Go
  • A. R. Ammons, “Corsons Inlet” (1965) (18), [643] Go
  • Patricia Nelson Limerick, from “Disorientation and Reorientation: American Landscape Discovered from the West” in Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West (2000) (19), [665] Go
  • Henry David Thoreau, from “Ktaadn” (1848) in The Maine Woods (1864) (20), [686] Go
  • Aldo Leopold, from “Thinking Like a Mountain” in A Sand County Almanac (1949) (20), [689] Go
  • Robert Costanza, from “Valuation of Ecosystems Services and Natural Capital” in “Ecological Economics: Creating a Transdisciplinary Science” (1996) (23), [798] Go
  • Raymond Bonner, from “Whose Heritage Is It?” in At the Hand of Man (1993) (25), [842] Go

 

 

 

 

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