Institute of Ecology records, Lynton K. Caldwell interview, 1985 March 8

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Summary

Creator:
Caldwell, Lynton K.
Date:
1985 March 8
Extent:
1 interview(s) (33.0 minutes)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Institute of Ecology records, Lynton Keith Caldwell interview, har.ua097.066.0002-1, University of Georgia Archives, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Lynton K. Caldwell discusses the Institute of Ecology, including its origins, its approaches to research, its relationship with colleges and universities, its structural and funding challenges, and its demise.

Biographical / historical:

Lynton K. Caldwell was an American political scientist and a principal architect of the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act. He was born November 21, 1913, in Montezuma, Iowa, and later educated at the University of Chicago. Caldwell spent most of his career at Indiana University Bloomington, where he received tenure in 1956 and retired as Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science in 1984. Although not a natural scientist, as part of his work towards establishing interdisciplinary study in universities and achieving a greater merging of the two worlds of science and public policy, he became deeply involved in national and international environmental affairs and worked closely with several important scientific bodies such as NOAA, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, IUCN, and UNESCO.

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Preferred citation:

Institute of Ecology records, Lynton Keith Caldwell interview, har.ua097.066.0002-1, University of Georgia Archives, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.