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Companion to Environmental Geography

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 the Environmental Change Institute and Professor of Environmental Science in the School of Feography 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
eBook, English, 2009
Wiley, Hoboken, 2009
1 online resource (604 pages)
9781444305739, 1444305735
1044726667
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Making Sense of Environmental Geography
Part I: Concepts
Chapter 2: Nature
Chapter 3: Sustainability
Chapter 4: Biodiversity
Chapter 5: Complexity, Chaos and Emergence
Chapter 6: Uncertainty and Risk
Chapter 7: Scale
Chapter 8: Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Change: Ecological and Social Perspectives
Chapter 9: Commodification
Part II: Approaches
Chapter 10: Earth-System Science
Chapter 11: Land Change (Systems) Science
Chapter 12: Ecology: Natural and Political. Chapter 13: Quaternary Geography and the Human Past
Chapter 14: Environmental History
Chapter 15: Landscape, Culture and Regional Studies: Connecting the Dots
Chapter 16: Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Transformation
Chapter 17: Marxist Political Economy and the Environment
Chapter 18: After Nature: Entangled Worlds
Part III: Practices
Chapter 19: Remote Sensing and Earth Observation
Chapter 20: Modelling and Simulation
Chapter 21: Integrated Assessment
Chapter 22: Ethnography
Chapter 23: Analysing Environmental Discourses and Representations. Chapter 24: Deliberative and Participatory Approaches in Environmental Geography
Part IV: Topics
Chapter 25: Ecosystem Prediction and Management
Chapter 26: Environment and Development
Chapter 27: Natural Hazards
Chapter 28: Environmental Governance
Chapter 29: Commons
Chapter 30: Water
Chapter 31: Energy Transformations and Geographic Research
Chapter 32: Food and Agriculture in a Globalising World
Chapter 33: Environment and Health
Index