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Environment An Interdisciplinary Anthology

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ISBN-10: 0300110774

ISBN-13: 9780300110777

Edition: 2008

Authors: Glenn Adelson, James Engell, Brent Ranalli, Kevin P. Van Anglen

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This major anthology is the first to apply a fully interdisciplinary approach to environmental studies. A comprehensive guide to environmental literacy, the book demonstrates how the sciences, social sciences, and humanities all contribute to understanding our interrelationships with the natural world. Though not specialized,Environmentis a book that even specialists can learn from. nbsp; Ten innovative case studies--climate shock, species endangerment, nuclear power, biotechnology, sustainable development, deforestation, environmental security, globalization, wilderness, and the urban environment--are followed by readings from specific disciplines. These can be integrated with the case…    
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Book details

List price: $43.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 1/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 984
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English

James Engell, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard, is the author of The Creative Imagination, editor and contributor to Johnson and His Age, and coeditor (with David Perkins) of Teaching Literature: What is Needed Now, all published by Harvard University Press. He is also coeditor of the Bollingen edition of the Biographia Literaria for the Collected Works of Coleridge.

Glenn Adelsonhas taught conservation biology at Harvard University and is coauthor ofBiodiversity: Exploring Values and Priorities in Conservation.James Engellis Gurney Professor of English; professor of comparative literature; chair, English and American literaturenbsp;and language; and faculty member of the Harvard University Center for the Environment.Brent Ranalliis senior analyst at The Cadmus Group, Inc., an employee-owned environmental consulting firm.K. P. Van Anglenteaches English at Boston University and is author, editor, or contributor to various publications on Thoreau and other American and English writers.