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A companion to environmental geography /
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; present...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, UK :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2009.
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| Colección: | Blackwell companions to geography.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.