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

Web Connections for Chapter 3: PDF Print E-mail

Supplemental web reading for Chapter 3, Nuclear Power: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the Future 

  • http://www.world-nuclear.org The World Nuclear Association, an industry page on nuclear power. Explanations of the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island nuclear incidents are informative. 

  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/three/index.html A site associated with a PBS program on Three Mile Island; features a timeline of American nuclear power, diagrams of the Three Mile Island reactor, biographies of key personalities, and map of all the nuclear reactors in the country. 

  • http://www-bcf.usc.edu/meshkati/chernobyl.html  Personal page on Chernobyl, complete directory to Web resources. Original introduction and interpretation of Chernobyl. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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