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Companion Environmental Geogra

Beschreibung

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

Autor

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 would describe himself as a 'hard core' physical geographer.

Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell / Wiley-VCH
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405156220
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1220g
• ISBN-13: 9781405156226
• ISBN-10: 1405156228
• Artikelnr.: 25663644

Rezensionen

"All of the chapters have detailed bibliographies, and the index provides comprehensive cross-listings." (CHOICE, 2009) "Well considered, written and presented. A timely addition to Wiley-Blackwell's Companion series." (Progress in Psychical Geography, September 2009)