Companion Environmental Geogra

Ed. by Noel Castree, David Demeritt, Diana Liverman et al.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents more than 30 newly commissioned essays byleading scholars that provide a summary of the state of the art inenvironmental geography and look ahead to future researchdevelopments in the field. It covers important practices, fromremote sensing to modeling and simulation, as well as key conceptslike sustainability and biodiversity.

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A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book tocomprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of human-environment geography in an accessible and comprehensiveway.

Cross-cuts several areas of a discipline which hastraditionally been seen as divided; presenting work by human andphysical geographers in the same volume
Presents both the current state of the art research andcharts future possibilities for the discipline
Extends the term environmental geography beyond its traditional meanings to include new work on nature andenvironment by human and physical geographers - not just hazards,resources, and conservation geographers
Contains essays from an outstanding group of internationalcontributors from among established scholars and rising stars ingeography

Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell / Wiley-VCH
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405156220
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 604
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1220g
• ISBN-13: 9781405156226
• ISBN-10: 1405156228
• Artikelnr.: 25663644

Autorenporträt

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 the 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.