Sources: Notable Selections in Environmental Studies

This volume brings together primary source selections of enduring intellectual value--classic articles, book excerpts, and research studies--that have shaped environmental studies and our contemporary understanding of it. The book includes carefully edited selections for the works of the most distinguished environmental observers, past and present. Selections are organized topically around the following major areas of study: energy, environmental degradation, population issues and the environment, human health and the environment, and environment and society.

Part 1. An Overview of Environmental Studies

CHAPTER 1. Preservation vs. Conservation

1.1. John Muir, from The Mountains of California

1.2. Gifford Pinchot, from The Fight for Conservation

1.3. Aldo Leopold, from A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

CHAPTER 2. Fundamental Causes of Environmental Problems

2.1. Lynn White, Jr., from "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis," Science

2.2. Barry Commoner, from The Closing Circle: Nature, Man and Technology

2.3. Paul R. Ehrlich, from The Population Bomb

2.4. Garrett Hardin, from "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science

2.5. Donella H. Meadows et al., from The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind

2.6. Peter M. Vitousek et al., from "Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems," Science

CHAPTER 3. Ecology and Ecosystems

3.1. G. Evelyn Hutchinson, from "Homage to Santa Rosalia, or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals?" The American Naturalist

3.2. Eugene P. Odum, from "Great Ideas in Ecology for the 1990s," Bioscience

CHAPTER 4. The Hydrosphere and the Geosphere

4.1. John Teal and Mildred Teal, from Life and Death of the Salt Marsh

4.2. Orrin H. Pilkey, from "Geologists, Engineers, and a Rising Sea Level," Northeastern Geology

Part 2. Energy

CHAPTER 5. Energy and Ecosystems

5.1. Chancey Juday, from "The Annual Energy Budget of an Inland Lake," Ecology

5.2. John M. Fowler, from Energy and the Environment

CHAPTER 6. Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy

6.1. Amory B. Lovins, from Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace

6.2. Christopher Flavin and Seth Dunn, from "Reinventing the Energy System," in Lester R. Brown et al., State of the World 1999: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society

Part 3. Environmental Degradation

CHAPTER 7. Forests, Wilderness, and Wildlife

7.1. William O. Douglas, from Sierra Club v. Morton

7.2. William Cronon, from Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature

7.3. John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto, from "Rethinking Rain Forests: Biodiversity and Social Justice," Food First Backgrounder

CHAPTER 8. Pollution

8.1. John Evelyn, from Fumifugium: Or the Inconvenience of the Aer and Smoake of London Dissipated

8.2. Beverly Paigen, from "Controversy at Love Canal," Hastings Center Report

8.3. J. W. Maurits la Rivière, from "Threats to the World's Water," Scientific American

CHAPTER 9. Global Warming and Ozone Depletion

9.1. Mario J. Molina and F. S. Rowland, from "Stratospheric Sink for Chlorofluoromethanes: Chlorine Atomc-atalysed Destruction of Ozone," Nature

9.2. Richard Elliot Benedick, from Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet

9.3. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), from Climate Change 1995: IPCC Second Assessment Report,

Part 4. Population Issues and the Environment

CHAPTER 10. Species Extinction and the Loss of Biodiversity

10.1. E. O. Wilson, from "The Current State of Biological Diversity," in E. O. Wilson, ed., Biodiversity

10.2. Stephen Jay Gould, from Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History

CHAPTER 11. Population Control Controversies

11.1. Betsy Hartmann, from Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control, rev. ed.

11.2. Julian L. Simon, from The Ultimate Resource

11.3. Joel E. Cohen, from How Many People Can the Earth Support?

Part 5. Human Health and the Environment

CHAPTER 12. Food

12.1. Wendell Berry, from The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

12.2. Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, from Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity

12.3. Lester Brown, from "Food Scarcity: An Environmental Wakeup Call," The Futurist

CHAPTER 13. Pest Control

13.1. Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring

13.2. Robert van den Bosch, from The Pesticide Conspiracy

CHAPTER 14. Environmental Carcinogens and Hormone Mimics

14.1. Sandra Steingraber, from Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment

14.2. Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers, from Our Stolen Future

Part 6. Environment and Society

CHAPTER 15. Political and Economic Issues

15.1. Mark Sagoff, from "At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic," Arizona Law Review

15.2. Robert D. Bullard, from Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality

15.3. Janet N. Abramovitz, from "Valuing Nature's Services," in Lester R. Brown et al., State of the World 1997

CHAPTER 16. Environmental Ethics and Worldviews

16.1. World Commission on Environment and Development, from Our Common Future

16.2. Paul W. Taylor, from "The Ethics of Respect for Nature," Environmental Ethics

16.3. Dave Foreman, from Confessions of an Eco-Warrior

16.4. Vandana Shiva, from "Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation," in Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism

16.5. Mark Hertsgaard, from Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future