A companion to environmental geography

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A companion to environmental geography / edited by Noel Castree [and others].

Castree, Noel, 1968- (Editor).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781405156226
ISBN: 1405156228
Physical Description: xv, 588 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Chichester, U.K. ; Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: 1. Introduction : making sense of environmental geography / Noel Castree, David Demeritt and Diana Liverman -- pt. I. Concepts -- 2. Nature / Bruce Braun -- 3. Sustainability / Becky Mansfield -- 4. Biodiversity / Karl S. Zimmerer -- 5. Complexity, chaos and emergence / Steven M. Manson -- 6. Uncertainty and risk / James D. Brown and Sarah L. Damery -- 7. Scale / Nathan F. Sayre -- 8. Vulnerability and resilience to environmental change : ecological and social perspectives / W. Neil Adger and Katrina Brown -- 9. Commodification / Scott Prudham -- pt. II. Approaches -- 10. Earth-system science / John Wainwright -- 11. Land change (systems) science / B.L. Turner II -- 12. Ecology : natural and political / Matthew D. Turner -- 13. Quaternary geography and the human past / Jamie Woodward -- 14. Environmental history / Georgina H. Endfield -- 15. Landscape, culture and regional studies : connecting the dots / Kenneth R. Olwig -- 16. Marxist political economy and the environment / George Henderson -- 18. After nature : entangled worlds / Owain Jones -- pt. III. Practices -- 19. Remote sensing and Earth observation / Heiko Balzter -- 20. Modelling and simulation / George L.W. Perry -- 21. Integrated assessment / James Tansey -- 22. Ethnography / Kevin St. Martin and Marianna Pavlovskaya -- 23. Analysing environmental discourses and representations / Tom Mels -- 24. Deliberative and participatory approaches in environmental geography / Jason Chilvers -- pt. IV. Topics -- 25. Ecosystem prediction and management / Robert A. Francis -- 26. Environment and development / Tom Perreault -- 27. Natural hazards / Daanish Mustafa -- 28. Environmental governance / Gavin Bridge and Tom Perreault -- 29. Commons / James McCarthy -- 30. Water / Karen Bakker -- 31. Energy transformations and geographic research / Scott Jiusto -- 32. Food and agriculture in a globalising world / Richard Le Heron -- 33. Environment and health / Hilda E. Kurtz and Karen E. Smoyer-Tomic.