A Companion to Environmental Geography

by Castree, Noel; Demeritt, David; Liverman, Diana; Rhoads, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9781405156226
• ISBN10: 1405156228
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-17
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

Noel Castree is Professor of Geography at Manchester University. Editor or author of Remaking Reality (1998), Social Nature (2001), and Nature (2005), his main resarch and teaching interests are in the political economy of environmental change.

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 Director of the Environmental Change Institute and Professor of Environmental Science in the School of Geography and Environment at Oxford University. 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 would describe himself as a 'hard core' physical geographer.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Making Sense of Environmental Geography	p. 1
Concepts	p. 17
Nature	p. 19
Sustainability	p. 37
Biodiversity	p. 50
Complexity, Chaos and Emergence	p. 66
Uncertainty and Risk	p. 81
Scale	p. 95
Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Change: Ecological and Social Perspectives	p. 109
Commodification	p. 123
Approaches	p. 143
Earth-System Science	p. 145
Land Change (Systems) Science	p. 168
Ecology: Natural and Political	p. 181
Quaternary Geography and the Human Past	p. 198
Environmental History	p. 223
Landscape, Culture and Regional Studies: Connecting the Dots	p. 238
Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Transformation	p. 253
Marxist Political Economy and the Environment	p. 266
After Nature: Entangled Worlds	p. 294
Practices	p. 313
Remote Sensing and Earth Observation	p. 315
Modelling and Simulation	p. 336
Integrated Assessment	p. 357
Ethnography	p. 370
Analysing Environmental Discourses and Representations	p. 385
Deliberative and Participatory Approaches in Environmental Geography	p. 400
Topics	p. 419
Ecosystem Prediction and Management	p. 421
Environment and Development	p. 442
Natural Hazards	p. 461
Environmental Governance	p. 475
Commons	p. 498
Water	p. 515
Energy Transformations and Geographic Research	p. 533
Food and Agriculture in a Globalising World	p. 552
Environment and Health	p. 567
Index	p. 580
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