A Companion to Environmental Geography

In recent years the number of physical and human geographers with interests in the tangled relationships between environment and society has grown considerably. Fueled by resurgent public and governmental concern about ′the human impact′ on the non–human world, there is currently more research and teaching activity in the marchlands between ′pure′ physical and ′pure′ human geography than ever before.
In over 30 chapters A Companion to Environmental Geography brings together international expertise from across the discipline to map the growing middle ground between physical and human geography and explore human–environment relationships.
Taking in a range of topics from remote sensing and ethnography to biodiversity, geoarchaeology, and environmental governance, this Companion is the first book to provide comprehensive and systematic coverage of this emergent area of study.

Spis treści:
Acknowledgements.
List of Contributors.
1 Introduction: Making Sense of Environmental Geography (Noel Castree, David Demeritt and Diana Liverman).
Part 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).
Part 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 Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Transformation (Arthur P. J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren).
17 Marxist Political Economy and the Environment (George Henderson).
18 After Nature: Entangled Worlds (Owain Jones).
Part 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).
Part 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).
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
The Editors:
Noel Castree is Professor of Geography at Manchester University. Editor or author of Remaking Reality (1998), Social Nature (2001), and Nature (2005), his main research 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 t he 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 is primarily interested in the fluvial dynamics of streams.

Okładka tylna:
In recent years the number of physical and human geographers with interests in the tangled relationships between environment and society has grown considerably. Fueled by resurgent public and governmental concern about ′the human impact′ on the non–human world, there is currently more research and teaching activity in the marchlands between ′pure′ physical and ′pure′ human geography than ever before.
In over 30 chapters A Companion to Environmental Geography brings together international expertise from across the discipline to map the growing middle ground between physical and human geography and explore human–environment relationships.
Taking in a range of topics from remote sensing and ethnography to biodiversity, geoarchaeology, and environmental governance, this Companion is the first book to provide comprehensive and systematic coverage of this emergent area of study.