The Environment and Science ― Social Impact and Interaction

For students in science and the humanities, Young (biology, Alverno College) provides a history of environmental science, from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present, with a focus on the US. He examines the work of scientists such as Linnaeus, Darwin, Rachel Carson, and Paul Ehrlich, and natural history, industrialization in North America, conservation, the origins of ecology, the influence of nuclear testing, the growth of environmentalism, globalism, the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, and current issues. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Christian C. Young, PhD, is assistant professor of biology at Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI.