Companion to environmental studies / edited by Noel Castree, Mike Hulme and James D. Proctor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Environmental studies past, present and future -- Part 1. Classic concepts. 1.1. Adaptation; 1.2. Bioregionalism; 1.3. Conservation; 1.4. Desertification; 1.5. Environment; 1.6. Ecosystems; 1.7. Environmental catastrophe; 1.8. Ecological footprint; 1.9. The environmental Kuznets curve; 1.10. Gaia; 1.11. The Jevons Paradox; 1.12. Nature; 1.13. One world; 1.14. Overpopulation; 1.15. Precaution; 1.16. Risk; 1.17. Resilience; 1.18. The resource curse; 1.19. Scarcity and environmental limits; 1.20. Stewardship; 1.21. Sustainable development; 1.22. The tragedy of the commons; 1.23. Uncertainty; 1.24. Vulnerability; 1.25. Wilderness -- Part 2. Contemporary concepts. 2.1. The Anthropocene; 2.2. Biopolitics; 2.3. Biosecurity; 2.4. Corporate environmental responsibility; 2.5. The Earth System; 2.6. Ecosystem services; 2.7. Environmental governance; 2.8. Green democracy; 2.9. Environmental security; 2.10. Food systems; 2.11. Green economy; 2.12. Green governmentality; 2.13. Hybridity; 2.14. Land grabbing; 2.15. Metabolic rift; 2.16. Offsetting; 2.17. Peak oil; 2.18. Planetary boundaries; 2.19. Post-environmentalism; 2.20. The social construction of nature; 2.21. Symbolic environmental politics; 2.22. Tipping points; 2.23. Wicked environmental problems -- Part 3. Classic approaches. 3.1. Cultural theory; 3.2 .Ecotheology; 3.3. Environmental anthropology; 3.4. Environmental economics; 3.5. Ecofeminism; 3.6. Environmental ethics; 3.7. Environmental geography; 3.8. Environmental health; 3.9. Environmental history; 3.10. Environmental modelling; 3.11. Environmental sociology; 3.12. Environmental politics; 3.13. Design, emotion, sustainability; 3.14. Environmental law; 3.15. Environmental management; 3.16. Environmental philosophy; 3.17. Environmental planning; 3.18. Environmental psychology; 3.19. Natural hazards research; 3.20. Science and technology studies; 3.21. Social ecology -- Part 4 Contemporary approaches. 4.1. Animal studies; 4.2. Business studies and the environment; 4.3. Environmentalism and creative writing; 4.4. Ecocriticism; 4.5. Ecological Marxism; 4.6. Ecopoetry; 4.7. Earth System Science; 4.8. Energy studies; 4.9. Environmental discourse analysis; 4.10. Environmental humanities; 4.11. Environmental image analysis; 4.12. Environmental political economy; 4.13. Environmental political theory; 4.14. Political ecology; 4.15. Post-normal science; 4.16. Queer ecology; 4.17. Resilience science; 4.18. Sustainability science; 4.19. Vulnerability science; 4.20. Urban ecology -- Part 5. Key topics: environmental challenges and changes. 5.1. Anthropogenic climate change; 5.2. Agro-food systems; 5.3. Biofuels; 5.4. Carbon budgets; 5.5. Fire; 5.6. Fisheries; 5.7. Forest resources; 5.8. Floods; 5.9. Glaciers; 5.10. Land degradation and restoration; 5.11. Mining and the environment; 5.12. Oceans: climate change, marine ecosystems and fisheries; 5. 13. The commons; 5.14. Transportation systems; 5.15. Volcanoes; 5.16. Water resources Part 6. Key topics: human responses to environmental change. 6.1. Corporate environmental responsibility; 6.2. Ecological modernization; 6.3. Ecotourism; 6.4. Ecological restoration; 6.5. Environmentalism; 6.6. Environmental art; 6.7. Environmental fiction; 6.8. Environmental celebrity; 6.9. Environmental certification and standards; 6.10. Environmental insecurity; 6.11. Environmental (in)justice; 6.12. Environmental education; 6.13. Environmental markets; 6.14. Environmental metaphor; 6.15. Environmental migrants and refugees; 6.16. Environment and the news media; 6.17. Environment and popular culture; 6.18. Environmental policy; 6.19. Environmental values; 6.20. Environmental science and public policy; 6.21. Geoengineering; 6.22. Green consumption; 6.23. Greenwashing; 6.24. Green technology; 6.25. Indigenous territorial rights; 6.26. Indigenous knowledge systems; 6.27. Institutions and natural resource management; 6.28. Privatizing environmental assets; 6.29. Sustainability transitions; 6.30. The sustainable development goals Part 7. Key debates. 7.1. Anthropocentrism; 7.2. Biology and culture; 7.3. Environmental science and politics; 7.4. Environmental behaviour change; 7.5. Environmental citizenship; 7.6. Environmental conservation and restoration; 7.7. Environment and economy; 7.8. Expert and lay Environmental knowledges; 7.9. Gender and Environment; 7.10. Interdisciplinary environmental inquiry; 7.11. Multi-level environmental governance; 7.12. International environmental institutions; 7.13. Markets and governments in environmental policy; 7.14. Nature and nurture; 7.15. Population numbers and global demography; 7.16. Public engagement with environmental science; 7.17. Race, nature and society; 7.18. Representation and reality; 7.19. Rewilding.

"'Companion to environmental studies' presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, debates, concepts, approaches and questions that together define environmental studies today. The intellectually wide-ranging volume covers approaches in environmental science all the way through to humanistic and post-natural perspectives on the biophysical world"--Page [4] of cover.