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 ...

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Further Reading for Chapter 18: PDF Print E-mail


  • Bate, Jonathan. The Song of the Earth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
  • Fletcher, Angus. A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Futureof Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
  • Kroeber, Karl. Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of the Mind. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.