EVEN 1000
Introduction to Environmental Engineering

Readings

• Carson, Rachel, 1962. Silent Spring. Fawcett Crest.
  This world-famous bestseller about the man-made pollutants that threaten to destroy life on this earth is widely credited with starting the environmental movement in the United States.  Available at Amazon.com.
  
   
• Colburn, Theo; Myers, John P.; and Dumanoski, Dianne, 1996. Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? -- A Scientific Detective Story.  E P Dutton.
  Is there really a population crisis looming due to reduced human sperm counts? Is there anything we can do about it? This work by two leading environmental scientists and an award-winning journalist picks up where Rachel Carson's Silent Spring left off, offering evidence that synthetic chemicals may have upset our normal reproductive and developmental processes. By threatening the fundamental process that perpetuates survival, these chemicals may be invisibly undermining the human race.  Available at Amazon.com.
  
   
• Klucas, Gillian, 2004. Leadville: The Struggle to Revive an American Town. Shearwater Books.
  A place where the river ran red with dissolved heavy metals and children played on mountainous waste rock piles, the mining town of Leadville, CO, was one of the most polluted locales in America. This excellent narrative chronicles the decades-long battle to clean up the town and to redefine it after the collapse of the mining industry. Journalist Klucas, who now lives in Leadville, delves into the shifting motives and strategies of a surprisingly complicated cast of characters, including the determined but often high-handed Environmental Protection Agency; the large corporations and small landowners who wrangled in court over liability for the clean-up costs; the townspeople, some of whom opposed the federally imposed cleanup as an insult to the Superfund site they proudly called home; and the preservationists who defined the town's slag heaps as a legacy and tourist attraction with which to reinvent the place as a frontier mining theme park. © Reed Business Information.  Available at Amazon.com.
   
• Vesilind, P. Aarne, and Gunn, Alistaire S., 1998.  Engineering, Ethics, and the Environment.  Cambridge University Press.
  This book makes the case that engineers have special professional obligations to protect and enhance the environment, and the authors--one an engineer and the other a philospher-- seek to provide an ethical basis for these obligations. In exploring these ethical issues, the authors aim to show that engineers make a difference.  Available at Amazon.com.
   
• Anderson, W.C., 2002. A History of Environmental Engineering in the United States.

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