Companion to Environmental Geography

Noel Castree is Professor of Geography at Manchester University, England, and the University of Wollongong, Australia. Editor of Social Nature (2001) and author of Making Sense of Nature (2013), his current research focuses on how people and Earth are represented by expert communities cross the disciplines.David Demeritt is a Reader in Geography at King's College, London. He has published many essays on the politics and practice of environmental science and theories of society-nature relations more generally.Diana Liverman is Co-Director of the Institute of the Environment and Regents Professor of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona. She has published widely on environmental change and policy.Bruce Rhoads is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and would describe himself as a 'hard core' physical geographer.

• 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

"A Companion to Environmental Geography will likely become a landmark, not only for having put forward the basics of a potentially emergent subfield in geography but also because of its contribution to the development of an agenda for geography at large, concerning both the conversation across the divide and geography's current entanglements with other scientific fields." (Geographical Review, 1 January 2012) "All of the chapters have detailed bibliographies, and the index provides comprehensive cross-listings." (Choice, 1 February 2010)"Well considered, written and presented. A timely addition to Wiley-Blackwell's Companion series." (Progress in Psychical Geography, September 2009)