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 17: PDF Print E-mail

Supplemental web reading for Chapter 17, Ethics, Philosophy, Gender

  • http://www.earthcharter.org Declaration espousing “respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, social and economic justice, and democracy, nonviolence, and peace”; links to ethical ecology sites. 

  • http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca An online journal devoted to Deep Ecology. Archives and current issues available. 

  • http://www.ecofem.org A hub of ecofeminist theory and activism.