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

In recent years the number of physical and human geographers with interests in the tangled relationships between environment and society has grown considerably. Fueled by resurgent public and governmental concern about 'the human impact' on the non-human world, there is currently more research and teaching activity in the marchlands between 'pure' physical and 'pure' human geography than ever before. In over 30 chapters A Companion to Environmental Geography brings together international expertise from across the discipline to map the growing middle ground between physical and human geography and explore human–environment relationships. Taking in a range of topics from remote sensing and ethnography to biodiversity, geoarchaeology, and environmental governance, this Companion is the first book to provide comprehensive and systematic coverage of this emergent area of study.

"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)