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A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of 'human-environment geography' in an accessible and comprehensive way.
* Cross-cuts several areas of a discipline which has traditionally been seen as divided; presenting work by human and physical geographers in the same volume
* Presents both the current 'state of the art' research and charts future possibilities for the discipline
* Extends the term 'environmental geography' beyond its 'traditional' meanings to include new work on nature and environment by human and physical geographers - not just hazards, resources, and conservation geographers
* Contains essays from an outstanding group of international contributors from among established scholars and rising stars in geography
List of contents
Acknowledgements viii
List of Contributors ix
1 Introduction: Making Sense of Environmental Geography 1
Noel Castree, David Demeritt and Diana Liverman
Part I Concepts 17
2 Nature 19
Bruce Braun
3 Sustainability 37
Becky Mansfield
4 Biodiversity 50
Karl S. Zimmerer
5 Complexity, Chaos and Emergence 66
Steven M. Manson
6 Uncertainty and Risk 81
James D. Brown and Sarah L. Damery
7 Scale 95
Nathan F. Sayre
8 Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Change: Ecological and Social Perspectives 109
W. Neil Adger and Katrina Brown
9 Commodification 123
Scott Prudham
Part II Approaches 143
10 Earth-System Science 145
John Wainwright
11 Land Change (Systems) Science 168
B. L. Turner II
12 Ecology: Natural and Political 181
Matthew D. Turner
13 Quaternary Geography and the Human Past 198
Jamie Woodward
14 Environmental History 223
Georgina H. Endfield
15 Landscape, Culture and Regional Studies: Connecting the Dots 238
Kenneth R. Olwig
16 Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Transformation 253
Arthur P. J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren
17 Marxist Political Economy and the Environment 266
George Henderson
18 After Nature: Entangled Worlds 294
Owain Jones
Part III Practices 313
19 Remote Sensing and Earth Observation 315
Heiko Balzter
20 Modelling and Simulation 336
George L. W. Perry
21 Integrated Assessment 357
James Tansey
22 Ethnography 370
Kevin St. Martin and Marianna Pavlovskaya
23 Analysing Environmental Discourses and Representations 385
Tom Mels
24 Deliberative and Participatory Approaches in Environmental Geography 400
Jason Chilvers
Part IV Topics 419
25 Ecosystem Prediction and Management 421
Robert A. Francis
26 Environment and Development 442
Tom Perreault
27 Natural Hazards 461
Daanish Mustafa
28 Environmental Governance 475
Gavin Bridge and Tom Perreault
29 Commons 498
James McCarthy
30 Water 515
Karen Bakker
31 Energy Transformations and Geographic Research 533
Scott Jiusto
32 Food and Agriculture in a Globalising World 552
Richard Le Heron
33 Environment and Health 567
Hilda E. Kurtz and Karen E. Smoyer-Tomic
Index 580
About the author
Noel Castree is Professor of Geography at Manchester University, England, and the University of Wollongong, Australia. Editor of
Social Nature (2001) and author of
Making Sense of Nature (2013), his current research focuses on how people and Earth are represented by expert communities cross the disciplines.
David Demeritt is a Reader in Geography at King's College, London. He has published many essays on the politics and practice of environmental science and theories of society?nature relations more generally.
Diana Liverman is Co-Director of the Institute of the Environment and Regents Professor of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona. She has published widely on environmental change and policy.
Bruce Rhoads is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is primarily interested in the fluvial dynamics of streams.
Summary
This volume presents more than 30 newly commissioned essays by leading scholars that provide a summary of the state of the art in environmental geography and look ahead to future research developments in the field.
