Environment: Critical Essays in Human

Spanning cultural and political ecology, the political economy of the environment, humanistic landscape interpretation, cultural studies of nature, and science and technology studies, this volume is the definitive guide to environmental studies in Human Geography over the past 30 years. The articles collected capture conceptual developments in the field for audiences within and beyond Geography, and illustrate the diversity and remarkable vitality of geographical research on society-environment relations.

Introduction
Nature and Society
New Directions for Environmental Geography
Environmental appreciation: localities as a humane art
Introduction: the ecology of subsistence
Population, resources and the ideology of science
Geography, Marx and the concept of nature
On the poverty of theory: natural hazards research in context
Prospect, perspective and the evolution of the landscape idea
Culture/Economy/Power
Thickening the Critical Turn in Environmental Geography
The matter of nature
Contesting terrain in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands
The nature of metaphors in cultural geography and environmental history
Earth honoring
Western desires and indigenous knowledges
Human geography and the 'new ecology': the prospects and promise of integration
The nature of produced nature: materiality and knowledge construction in Marxism
Culture and nature at the Adelaide Zoo: at the frontiers of 'human' geography
Zoöpolis
Buried epistemologies: the politics of nature in (post)colonial British Columbia
Nature and fictitious capital: the historical geography of an agrarian question
Rethinking environmental racism: white privilege and urban development in Southern California
Beyond Dualism
Relational Histories and Ontologies
Hybrid geographies: rethinking the 'human' in human geography
Privatizing water, producing scarcity: the Yorkshire drought of 1995
The African origins of Carolina rice culture
Indeterminacy in-decisions - science, policy and politics in the BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) crisis
Resource curse? Governmentality, oil and power in the Niger delta, Nigeria
Turfgrass subjects: the political economy of urban monoculture
Living cities: towards a politics of conviviality
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