Environment : Critical Essays in Human Geography (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; Part I Nature and Society: New Directions for Environmental Geography: Environmental appreciation: localities as a humane art, D. W. Meinig; Introduction: the ecology of subsistence, Bernard Nietzschmann; Population, resources and the ideology of science, David Harvey; Geography, Marx and the concept of nature, Neil Smith and Phil O'Keefe; On the poverty of theory: natural hazards research in context, Michael Watts; Prospect, perspective and the evolution of the landscape idea, Denis Cosgrove. Part II Culture/Economy/Power: Thickening the Critical Turn in Environmental Geography: The matter of nature, Margaret Fitzsimmons; Contesting terrain in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands, Donald Moore; The nature of metaphors in cultural geography and environmental history, David Demeritt; Earth honoring: Western desires and indigenous knowledges, Jane M. Jacobs; Human geography and the 'new ecology': the prospects and promise of integration, Karl S. Zimmer; The nature of produced nature: materiality and knowledge construction in Marxism, Noel Castree; Culture and nature at the Adelaide Zoo: at the frontiers of 'human' geography, Kay Anderson; ZoA¶polis, Jennifer Wolch; Buried epistemologies: the politics of nature in (post)colonial British Columbia, Bruce Willems-Braun; Nature and fictitious capital: the historical geography of an agrarian question, George Henderson; Rethinking environmental racism: white privilege and urban development in Southern California, Laura Pulido. Part III Beyond Dualism: Relational Histories and Ontologies: Hybrid geographies: rethinking the 'human' in human geography, Sarah Whatmore; Privatizing water, producing scarcity: the Yorkshire drought of 1995, Karen J. Bakker; The African origins of Carolina rice culture, Judith Carney; Indeterminacy in-decisions - science, policy and politics in the BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) crisis, Steve Hinchliffe; Resource curse? Governmentality, oil and power in the Niger delta, Nig