“Wherefore Environmental Studies in a 21st Century City?”

June 2013
By Julianne Lutz Warren
Center for Humans & Nature

Those familiar with the works of Aldo Leopold will see that the idea and title for this writing spring from his 1947 “Wherefore Wildlife Ecology?” written to his students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The following words are dedicated to the young adults of another century in another place—my undergraduate students at New York University.