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 volume
- Presents both the current 'state of the art' research and charts future possibilities for the discipline
- Extends the term 'environmental geography' beyond its 'traditional' meanings to include new work on nature and environment by human and physical geographers - not just hazards, resources, and conservation geographers
- Contains essays from an outstanding group of international contributors from among established scholars and rising stars in geography
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&ló5
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