Companion To Environmental Geography

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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.

"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

"Well considered, written and presented. A timely addition to Wiley-Blackwell's Companion series." Progress in Psychical Geography

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 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

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