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

Chapter 13: Air and Water (no headnote) PDF Print E-mail

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Selections in this chapter:

  • John Seinfeld and Spyros Pandis, from Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (1998), [454] Go
  • S. George Philander, from “The Ozone Hole, A Cautionary Tale” in Is the Temperature Rising? (1998), [468] Go
  • Mario J. Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland, “Stratospheric Sink for Chlorofluoromethanes: Chlorine Atom-Catalysed Destruction of Ozone” (1974), [472] Go
  • Kathryn S. Brown, “The Ozone Layer: Burnt by the Sun Down Under” (1999), [476] Go
  • Joshua I. Barzilay, Winkler G. Weinberg, and J. William Eley, from The Water We Drink: Water Quality and Its Effects on Health (1999), [478] Go
  • World Health Organization and UNICEF, from Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment 2000 Report, [483] Go
  • Rodney R. White, from “Water Supply” in North, South and the Environmental Crisis (1993), [486] Go

 


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