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 25: Anthropology (no headnote) PDF Print E-mail

 

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Selections in the chapter:

  • George Catlin, from Letters and Notes on the . . . North American Indians (1841), [834] Go
  • Joe Kane, from “With Spears from All Sides” (1993), [837] Go
  • Raymond Bonner, from “Whose Heritage Is It?” in At the Hand of Man (1993), [842] Go
  • Helen Corbett, “The Rights of Indigenous Peoples” (1996), [849] Go
  • Rigoberto Queme Chay, from “The Corn Men Have Not Forgotten Their Ancient Gods” (1993), [85] Go
  • Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine, from “Where Have All the Languages Gone?” in Vanishing Voices (2000), [853] Go

 

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