Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography (Contemporary Foundations of Space and Place)

"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."--Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction PART I: NATURE AND SOCIETY: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY 1 Environmental Appreciation: Localities as a Humane Art 2 Introduction: The Ecology of Subsistence 3 Population, Resources, and the Ideology of Science 4 Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature 5 On the Poverty of Theory: Natural Hazards Research in Context 6 Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea PART II: CULTURE/ECONOMY/POWER: THICKENING THE CRITICAL TURN IN ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY 7 The Matter of Nature 8 Contesting Terrain in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands: Political Ecology, Ethnography, and Peasant Resource Struggles 9 The Nature of Metaphors in Cultural Geography and Environmental History 10 Earth Honoring: Western Desires and Indigenous Knowledges 11 Human Geography and the "New Ecology": The Prospect and Promise of Integration 12 The Nature of Produced Nature: Materiality and Knowledge Construction in Marxism 13 Culture and Nature at the Adelaide Zoo: At the Frontiers of "Human" Geography 14 Zoöpolis 15 Buried Epistemologies: The Politics of Nature in (Post)colonial British Columbia 16 Nature and Fictitious Capital: The Historical Geography of an Agrarian Question 17 Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California PART III: BEYOND DUALISM: RELATIONAL HISTORIES AND ONTOLOGIES 18 Hybrid Geographies: Rethinking the "Human" in Human Geography 19 Privatizing Water, Producing Scarcity: The Yorkshire Drought of 1995 20 The African Origins of Carolina Rice Culture 21 Indeterminacy In-Decisions - Science, Policy and Politics in the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) Crisis 22 Resource Curse? Governmentality, Oil and Power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria 23 Turfgrass Subjects: The Political Economy of Urban Monoculture 24 Living Cities: Towards a Politics of Conviviality Name Index "Cover"--"Half Title" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Series Preface" -- "Introduction" -- "PART I: NATURE AND SOCIETY: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY" -- "1 Environmental Appreciation: Localities as a Humane Art" -- "2 Introduction: The Ecology of Subsistence" -- "3 Population, Resources, and the Ideology of Science" -- "4 Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature" -- "5 On the Poverty of Theory: Natural Hazards Research in Context" -- "6 Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea" -- "PART II: CULTURE/ECONOMY/POWER: THICKENING THE CRITICAL TURN IN ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY" -- "7 The Matter of Nature" -- "8 Contesting Terrain in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands: Political Ecology, Ethnography, and Peasant Resource Struggles" -- "9 The Nature of Metaphors in Cultural Geography and Environmental History" -- "10 Earth Honoring: Western Desires and Indigenous Knowledges" -- "11 Human Geography and the "New Ecology": The Prospect and Promise of Integration" -- "12 The Nature of Produced Nature: Materiality and Knowledge Construction in Marxism" -- "13 Culture and Nature at the Adelaide Zoo: At the Frontiers of "Human" Geography" -- "14 ZoÃœpolis" -- "15 Buried Epistemologies: The Politics of Nature in (Post)colonial British Columbia" -- "16 Nature and Fictitious Capital: The Historical Geography of an Agrarian Question" -- "17 Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California" -- "PART III: BEYOND DUALISM: RELATIONAL HISTORIES AND ONTOLOGIES" -- "18 Hybrid Geographies: Rethinking the "Human" in Human Geography" -- "19 Privatizing Water, Producing Scarcity: The Yorkshire Drought of 1995" -- "20 The African Origins of Carolina Rice Culture The articles collected together in this volume capture conceptual developments in the field of environmental studies in human geography and illustrate the diversity and remarkable vitality of geographical research on society-environment relations.