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…mehr
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 geographyHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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Acknowledgements viii
List of Contributors ix
1 Introduction: Making Sense of Environmental Geography 1 Noel Castree, David Demeritt and Diana Liverman
Part I Concepts 17
2 Nature 19 Bruce Braun
3 Sustainability 37 Becky Mansfield
4 Biodiversity 50 Karl S. Zimmerer
5 Complexity, Chaos and Emergence 66 Steven M. Manson
6 Uncertainty and Risk 81 James D. Brown and Sarah L. Damery
7 Scale 95 Nathan F. Sayre
8 Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Change: Ecological and Social Perspectives 109 W. Neil Adger and Katrina Brown
9 Commodification 123 Scott Prudham
Part II Approaches 143
10 Earth-System Science 145 John Wainwright
11 Land Change (Systems) Science 168 B. L. Turner II
12 Ecology: Natural and Political 181 Matthew D. Turner
13 Quaternary Geography and the Human Past 198 Jamie Woodward
14 Environmental History 223 Georgina H. Endfield
15 Landscape, Culture and Regional Studies: Connecting the Dots 238 Kenneth R. Olwig
16 Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Transformation 253 Arthur P. J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren
17 Marxist Political Economy and the Environment 266 George Henderson
18 After Nature: Entangled Worlds 294 Owain Jones
Part III Practices 313
19 Remote Sensing and Earth Observation 315 Heiko Balzter
20 Modelling and Simulation 336 George L. W. Perry
21 Integrated Assessment 357 James Tansey
22 Ethnography 370 Kevin St. Martin and Marianna Pavlovskaya
23 Analysing Environmental Discourses and Representations 385 Tom Mels
24 Deliberative and Participatory Approaches in Environmental Geography 400 Jason Chilvers
Part IV Topics 419
25 Ecosystem Prediction and Management 421 Robert A. Francis
26 Environment and Development 442 Tom Perreault
27 Natural Hazards 461 Daanish Mustafa
28 Environmental Governance 475 Gavin Bridge and Tom Perreault
29 Commons 498 James McCarthy
30 Water 515 Karen Bakker
31 Energy Transformations and Geographic Research 533 Scott Jiusto
32 Food and Agriculture in a Globalising World 552 Richard Le Heron
33 Environment and Health 567 Hilda E. Kurtz and Karen E. Smoyer-Tomic
