Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology

Science News,  March 15, 2008  

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ENVIRONMENT: An Interdisciplinary Anthology GLENN ADELSON, JAMES ENGELL, BRENT RANALLI, AND K.P. VAN ANGLEN, EDS.

This anthology of contemporary and historical writings encompasses disparate environmental issues while also exploring each in-depth. The editors, trained environmentalists, include text from scientific journals, legal decisions, historical accounts, economic analyses, fiction, and poetry. The first section addresses 10 current challenges in environmental studies with essays on statistics, historical records, and models related to the challenge of climate change. Articles on deforestation consider everything from logging practices to Alexis de Tocqueville's ideology of continental expansion. War forms another chapter on environmental challenges: The editors connect societal conflict to access to oil fields and other natural energy reserves. The book's part two covers fundamental topics such as biodiversity and agriculture. A true anthology, the collection also touches on more philosophical subjects such as ecofeminism and the continuity of being. Yale Univ., 2008, b&w photos and illus., 950 p., paperback, $45.00.

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