A Companion to Environmental Geography

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 geography

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 hazardsresources, and conservation geographers* Contains essays from an outstanding group of internationalcontributors from among established scholars and rising stars ingeography

Acknowledgements viiiList of Contributors ix1 Introduction: Making Sense of Environmental Geography 1Noel Castree, David Demeritt and Diana LivermanPart I Concepts 172 Nature 19Bruce Braun3 Sustainability 37Becky Mansfield4 Biodiversity 50Karl S. Zimmerer5 Complexity, Chaos and Emergence 66Steven M. Manson6 Uncertainty and Risk 81James D. Brown and Sarah L. Damery7 Scale 95Nathan F. Sayre8 Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Change: Ecological and Social Perspectives 109W. Neil Adger and Katrina Brown9 Commodification 123Scott PrudhamPart II Approaches 14310 Earth-System Science 145John Wainwright11 Land Change (Systems) Science 168B. L. Turner II12 Ecology: Natural and Political 181Matthew D. Turner13 Quaternary Geography and the Human Past 198Jamie Woodward14 Environmental History 223Georgina H. Endfield15 Landscape, Culture and Regional Studies: Connecting the Dots 238Kenneth R. Olwig16 Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Transformation 253Arthur P. J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren17 Marxist Political Economy and the Environment 266George Henderson18 After Nature: Entangled Worlds 294Owain JonesPart III Practices 31319 Remote Sensing and Earth Observation 315Heiko Balzter20 Modelling and Simulation 336George L. W. Perry21 Integrated Assessment 357James Tansey22 Ethnography 370Kevin St. Martin and Marianna Pavlovskaya23 Analysing Environmental Discourses and Representations 385Tom Mels24 Deliberative and Participatory Approaches in Environmental Geography 400Jason ChilversPart IV Topics 41925 Ecosystem Prediction and Management 421Robert A. Francis26 Environment and Development 442Tom Perreault27 Natural Hazards 461Daanish Mustafa28 Environmental Governance 475Gavin Bridge and Tom Perreault29 Commons 498James McCarthy30 Water 515Karen Bakker31 Energy Transformations and Geographic Research 533Scott Jiusto32 Food and Agriculture in a Globalising World 552Richard Le Heron33 Environment and Health 567Hilda E. Kurtz and Karen E. Smoyer-TomicIndex 580