1. Edition - January 2009
155.- Euro
2009. 608 Pages, Hardcover
- Practical Approach Book -
ISBN-10: 1-4051-5622-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-5622-6 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
This 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. It covers important practices, from remote sensing to modeling and simulation, as well as key concepts like sustainability and biodiversity. The book also devotes attention to specific topics impacting the field today, including ecosystem prediction and management, common property regimes, and integrated environmental assessment. It is an essential resource for anyone studying or working in environmental geography.

From the contents
Acknowledgements.

List of Contributors.

1 Introduction: Making Sense of Environmental Geography (Noel Castree, David Demeritt and Diana Liverman).

Part 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).

Part 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 Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Transformation (Arthur P. J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren).

17 Marxist Political Economy and the Environment (George Henderson).

18 After Nature: Entangled Worlds (Owain Jones).

Part 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).

Part 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).

Index.