Acknowledgements ............................................. viii
List of Contributors ........................................... ix
1. Introduction: Making Sense of Environmental Geography ....... 1
Noel Castree, David Demeritt and Diana Liverman
Part I. Concepts ............................................. 17
2. Nature ..................................................... 19
Bruce Braun
3. Sustainability ............................................. 37
Becky Mansfield
4. Biodiversity ............................................... 50
Karl S. Zimmerer
5. Complexity, Chaos and Emergence ............................ 66
Steven M. Manson
6. Uncertainty and Risk ....................................... 81
James D. Brown and Sarah L. Damery
7. Scale ...................................................... 95
Nathan F. Sayre
8. Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Change:
Ecological and Social Perspectives ........................ 109
W. Neil Adger and Katrina Brown
9. Commodification ........................................... 123
Scott Prudham
Part II. Approaches ........................................... 143
10. Earth-System Science ...................................... 145
John Wainwright
11. Land Change (Systems) Science ............................. 168
B.L. Turner II
12. Ecology: Natural and Political ............................ 181
Matthew D. Turner
13. Quaternary Geography and the Human Past ................... 198
Jamie Woodward
14. Environmental History ..................................... 223
Georgina H. Endfield
15. Landscape, Culture and Regional Studies: Connecting
the Dots .................................................. 238
Kenneth R. Olwig
16. Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Transformation .... 253
Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren
17. Marxist Political Economy and the Environment ............. 266
George Henderson
18. After Nature: Entangled Worlds ............................ 294
Owain Jones
Part III. Practices ........................................... 313
19. Remote Sensing and Earth Observation ...................... 315
Heiko Balzter
20. Modelling and Simulation .................................. 336
George L.W. Perry
21. Integrated Assessment ..................................... 357
James Tansey
22. Ethnography ............................................... 370
Kevin St. Martin and Marianna Pavlovskaya
23. Analysing Environmental Discourses and Representations .... 385
Tom Mels
24. Deliberative and Participatory Approaches in
Environmental Geography ................................... 400
Jason Chilvers
Part IV. Topics ............................................... 419
25. Ecosystem Prediction and Management ....................... 421
Robert A. Francis
26. Environment and Development ............................... 442
Tom Perreault
27. Natural Hazards ........................................... 461
Daanish Mustafa
28. Environmental Governance .................................. 475
Gavin Bridge and Tom Perreault
29. Commons ................................................... 498
James McCarthy
30. Water ..................................................... 515.
Karen Bakker
31. Energy Transformations and Geographic Research ............ 533
Scott Jiusto
32. Food and Agriculture in a Globalising World ............... 552
Richard Le Heron
33. Environment and Health .................................... 567
Hilda E. Kurtz and Karen E. Smoyer-Tomic
Index ......................................................... 580
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