A companion to environmental geography / edited by Noel Castree ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell companions to geographyPublication details: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.Description: xv, 588 p : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781119250623
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.709 22
LOC classification:
  • G143 .C66
Contents:
1. Introduction : making sense of environmental geography / Noel Castree, David Demeritt and Diana Liverman -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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. Marxist political economy and the environment / George Henderson -- 18. After nature : entangled worlds / Owain Jones -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : making sense of environmental geography / Noel Castree, David Demeritt and Diana Liverman -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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. Marxist political economy and the environment / George Henderson -- 18. After nature : entangled worlds / Owain Jones -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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.

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