Earlier versions of many of these chapters appeared in previous publications, both journals and books, with many of them being published outside of the United States. All of them have been revised, some substantially, for inclusion in this book. “The Complexity of Simplicity,” “Paradise or a Pair of Dice: Contradictions and Contingencies in Real and Virtual Terrains for Tomorrow’s College Students,” “The Non-alibi of Pragmatic Utopianism and Wild Variability,” and “Scenarios of Disaster” originally appeared in Tamkang Review (Taiwan) and are reprinted here with permission of the editor. “The Four Elements” first appeared in Studies in the Humanities 29, no. 1 (2002) and is reprinted here with permission of the editor. “Difference and Responsibility in Literary Alternatives to the Nation-State” originally appeared as “Grounding Anotherness and Answerability through Allonational Ecoliterature Formations” in Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism, edited by Sylvia Mayer and Catrin Gersdorf (2006, pp. 414–35) and is reprinted by permission of the publisher, Rodopi of Amsterdam. “The Non-alibi of Alien Scapes” appeared in Beyond Nature Writing (2001, pp. 263–78), edited by Karla Armbruster and Kathleen Wallace, and “Nature Nurturing Fathers in a World Beyond Our Control” appeared in Eco-Man (2004, pp. 196–210), edited by Mark Allister, and both are reprinted here by permission of the University of Virginia Press. “Toward Transnational Ecocritical Theory: The Example of Hwa Yol Jung” also appears with a different emphasis as “The Confluence of Hwa Yol Jung’s Ethics and North American Environmental Literature” in Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung, edited by Jin Young Park, also published by Lexington Books. “Ranging Widely to Find Home” originally appeared in AEQ: Academic Exchange Quarterly 7, no. 4 (2003): 53–57.