{"product_id":"a-companion-to-environmental-geography-isbn-9781119250623","title":"A Companion to Environmental Geography","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Environmental Geography\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of 'human-environment geography' in an accessible and comprehensive way.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCross-cuts several areas of a discipline which has traditionally been seen as divided; presenting work by human and physical geographers in the same volume\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents both the current 'state of the art' research and charts future possibilities for the discipline\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExtends 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains essays from an outstanding group of international contributors from among established scholars and rising stars in geography\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Making Sense of Environmental Geography 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNoel Castree, David Demeritt and Diana Liverman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Concepts 17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Nature 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBruce Braun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Sustainability 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecky Mansfield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Biodiversity 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKarl S. Zimmerer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Complexity, Chaos and Emergence 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteven M. Manson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Uncertainty and Risk 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames D. Brown and Sarah L. Damery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Scale 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNathan F. Sayre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Change: Ecological and Social Perspectives 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eW. Neil Adger and Katrina Brown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Commodification 123\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScott Prudham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Approaches 143\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Earth-System Science 145\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Wainwright\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Land Change (Systems) Science 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eB. L. Turner II\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Ecology: Natural and Political 181\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatthew D. Turner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Quaternary Geography and the Human Past 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJamie Woodward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Environmental History 223\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorgina H. Endfield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Landscape, Culture and Regional Studies: Connecting the Dots 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKenneth R. Olwig\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Transformation 253\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArthur P. J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Marxist Political Economy and the Environment 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Henderson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 After Nature: Entangled Worlds 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOwain Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Practices 313\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Remote Sensing and Earth Observation 315\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeiko Balzter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Modelling and Simulation 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge L. W. Perry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Integrated Assessment 357\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Tansey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Ethnography 370\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin St. Martin and Marianna Pavlovskaya\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Analysing Environmental Discourses and Representations 385\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Mels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Deliberative and Participatory Approaches in Environmental Geography 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJason Chilvers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Topics 419\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Ecosystem Prediction and Management 421\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert A. Francis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Environment and Development 442\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Perreault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Natural Hazards 461\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaanish Mustafa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Environmental Governance 475\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGavin Bridge and Tom Perreault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Commons 498\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames McCarthy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Water 515\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaren Bakker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Energy Transformations and Geographic Research 533\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScott Jiusto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Food and Agriculture in a Globalising World 552\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Le Heron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Environment and Health 567\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHilda E. Kurtz and Karen E. Smoyer-Tomic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 580\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoel Castree\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Geography at Manchester University, England, and the University of Wollongong, Australia. Editor of \u003ci\u003eSocial Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) and author of \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), his current research focuses on how people and Earth are represented by expert communities cross the disciplines. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Demeritt\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiana Liverman\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce Rhoads\u003c\/b\u003e 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.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Environmental Geography\u003c\/i\u003e will likely become a landmark, not only for having put forward the basics of a potentially emergent subfield in geography but also because of its contribution to the development of an agenda for geography at large, concerning both the conversation across the divide and geography's current entanglements with other scientific fields.\" \u003ci\u003eGeographical Review\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Well considered, written and presented. A timely addition to Wiley-Blackwell's Companion series.\" \u003ci\u003eProgress in Psychical Geography\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent years the number of physical and human geographers with interests in the tangled relationships between environment and society has grown considerably. Fueled by resurgent public and governmental concern about 'the human impact' on the non- human world, there is currently more research and teaching activity in the marchlands between 'pure' physical and 'pure' human geography than ever before. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn over 30 chapters \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Environmental Geography\u003c\/i\u003e brings together international expertise from across the discipline to map the growing middle ground between physical and human geography and explore human– environment relationships. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking in a range of topics from remote sensing and ethnography to biodiversity, geoarchaeology, and environmental governance, this \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to provide comprehensive and systematic coverage of this emergent area of study.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988606173413,"sku":"NP9781119250623","price":57.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119250623.jpg?v=1761780944","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-companion-to-environmental-geography-isbn-9781119250623","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}