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 22: Law and Environmental Justice (no headnote) PDF Print E-mail

 

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Selections in this chapter:

  • Lynton Caldwell, from “Environmental Aspects of International Law” in International Environmental Policy: Emergence and Dimensions (1990), [748] Go
  • C. M. Abraham and Sushila Abraham, from “The Bhopal Case and the Development of Environmental Law in India” (1991), [753] Go
  • Warren Burger, TVA v. Hill, U.S. Supreme Court (1978), [759] Go
  • Antonin Scalia, Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, U.S. Supreme Court (1992), [764] Go
  • Robert D. Bullard, from “Environmental Justice for All” in Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color (1994), [766] Go
  • Christopher H. Foreman, Jr., from “Political and Policy Limitations of Environmental Justice” in The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice (1998), [770] Go


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