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

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"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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"A comprehensive guide to environmental literacy."

 

Selected as a 2008 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries.

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- Professor James Engell to teach a DuPont Seminar at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, on Environmental issues and the humanities ...
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Further Reading for Chapter 19: PDF Print E-mail


  • Bailes, Kendall E., ed. Environmental History: Critical Issues in Comparative Perspective. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America for the American Society for Environmental History, 1985.
  • Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England.
  • New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
  • Crosby, Alfred W., Jr. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
  • Knorr-Cetina, Karin D. The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist andContextual Nature of Science. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1981.
  • Krutch, Joseph Wood. “The Colloid and the Crystal.” In The Best Nature Writing of JosephWood Krutch. New York: William Morrow, 1969. 309–11.
  • Merchant, Carolyn, ed. Major Problems in American Environmental History: Documents andEssays. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1993.
  • Worster, Donald, ed. The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
  •  ———. Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. 1977. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.