Description
Book SynopsisThis volume presents more than 30 newly commissioned essays by leading scholars that provide a summary of the state of the art in environmental geography and look ahead to future research developments in the field.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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
Index 580
