This volume presents more than 30 newly commissioned essays by leading scholars that provide a summary of the state of the art in environmental geography and look ahead to future research developments in the field.

Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. 1 Introduction: Making Sense of Environmental Geography ( Noel Castree, David Demeritt and Diana Liverman ). Part 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 ). Part 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 Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Transformation ( Arthur P. J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren ). 17 Marxist Political Economy and the Environment ( George Henderson ). 18 After Nature: Entangled Worlds ( Owain Jones ). Part 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 ). Part 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 ). Index.

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