美国当代著名历史学家，堪萨斯大学赫尔荣誉教授，美国科学与社会学院院士，环境史学的创始人与权威学者之一，剑桥大学“环境与历史”系列丛书主编。其主要著作包括《自然的经济体系：生态思想史》、《尘暴：1930年代的美国南部大平原》、《帝国之河：水、旱、与美国西部的成长》、《自然的财富》、《在西部的天空下》、《地球的终结》、《向西奔腾的河流：约翰•卫斯理•鲍威尔的一生》、《热爱自然：约翰•缪尔的一生》。沃斯特曾获1980年Bancroft奖、1997年世界生物资源保护协会杰出成就奖、2004年美国环境史协会杰出成就奖、2009年苏格兰文学最高奖，2009年英语语言联盟最佳传记奖等。目前的研究课题有二：环境史的理论基础与达尔文、后达尔文科学及适应性概念之间的关系；美国与现代世界历史进程中自然丰裕与匮缺的竞争与共生。

Prof. Donald Worster has been active in environmental history since the early 1970s, both in the United States and other parts of the world. He is an elected member of the Society of American Historians and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Worster's books include Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas; Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s; Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West; A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell; A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir; along with several books of collected essays, including The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination. His current research focuses on two projects: Darwinian and post-Darwinian science and the concept of adaptation as theoretical bases for environmental history, and the twin, competing themes of natural abundance and scarcity in American and modern world history.