A Companion to Environmental Geography

by Editor: Noel Castree (University of Manchester, UK); Editor: David Demeritt (King's College, University of London, UK); Editor: Diana Liverman (University of Oxford, UK); Editor: Bruce Rhoads (University of Illinois, USA)

• ISBN13: 9781444305739
• ISBN10: 1444305735
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• 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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction: Making Sense of Environmental Geography

Concepts.

Nature

Sustainability

Biodiversity

Complexity, Chaos and Emergence

Uncertainty and Risk

Scale

Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Change: Ecological and Social Perspectives

Commodification

Approaches.

Earth-System Science

Land Change (Systems) Science

Ecology: Natural and Political

Quaternary Geography and the Human Past

Environmental History

Landscape, Culture and Regional Studies: Connecting the Dots

Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Transformation

Marxist Political Economy and the Environment

After Nature: Entangled Worlds

Practices.

Remote Sensing and Earth Observation

Modelling and Simulation

Integrated Assessment

Ethnography

Analysing Environmental Discourses and Representations

Deliberative and Participatory Approaches in Environmental Geography

Topics.

Ecosystem Prediction and Management

Environment and Development

Natural Hazards

Environmental Governance

Commons

Water

Energy Transformations and Geographic Research

Food and Agriculture in a Globalising World

Environment and Health

Index

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