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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910146104903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-02621-6; 1-78034-210-1; 9786612026218; 1-4051-9792-7; 1-4443-0572-7; 1-4443-0573-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (604 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell companions to geography
• Classificazione: 290.13; 333.709
• Disciplina: 333.709
• Soggetti: Environmental geography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 volumePresents both the current 'state of the art' research and charts future possibilities for the disciplineExtends the term 'environmental geography' beyond its 'traditional' meanings to include new work on nature and environment by