A Companion to Environmental Geography

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Noel Castree, David Demeritt, Diana Liverman, Bruce Rhoads
John Wiley & Sons, Oct 3, 2016 - Science - 608 pages
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
 

Selected pages

Contents

Acknowledgements
8
Nature
19
Sustainability
37
Biodiversity
50
Complexity Chaos and Emergence
66
Uncertainty and Risk
81
Scale
95
Commodification
123
Practices
313
Modelling and Simulation
336
Integrated Assessment
357
Ethnography
370
Deliberative and Participatory Approaches
400
Topics
419
Natural Hazards
461
Environmental Governance
475

Approaches
143
Natural and Political
181
Quaternary Geography and the Human Past
198
Environmental History
223
Connecting the Dots
238
Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Transformation
253
Marxist Political Economy and the Environment
266
Entangled Worlds
294
Commons
498
Water
515
Energy Transformations and Geographic Research
533
Food and Agriculture in a Globalising World
552
Environment and Health
567
Index
580
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About the author (2016)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Companion to Environmental Geography
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
EditorsNoel Castree, David Demeritt, Diana Liverman, Bruce Rhoads
Editionillustrated
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2016
ISBN1119250625, 9781119250623
Length608 pages
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Science / Earth Sciences / Geography
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