| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.3

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Understanding the Environment: Bridging the Disciplinary Divides. Edited by R. Quentin Grafton, Libby Robin, and Robert J. Wasson. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales, 2004. 220 pp. Paper $39.95.

This collection of essays is unique (to the best of my knowledge) in at least one respect. Every author, in the year of publication, was a member of the same institution, namely, the Australian National University's National Institute for Environment (with many working together at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies—the Southern Hemisphere's biggest and oldest interdisciplinary environmental research center). This contributor cohesiveness bodes well and, by the standards of edited collections, this one is certainly tightly focused and organized (with a wealth of cross-referencing). Each author was given a common set of issues to address—including the fundamental features of their disciplines. So, in addition to finding out about the distinctive contributions to environmental understanding of anthropology, ecology, economics, environmental earth science, geography, history, human health, hydrology and engineering, mathematics and statistical sciences, and public policy, we learn about things like the history of environmental health studies and the origins of geology.

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