Overview
- Provides a founding text for the emerging discipline of Critical Physical Geography
- Outlines the core tenets, primary methodological principles and epistemological assumptions of Critical Physical Geography
- Works towards a genealogy of Critical Physical Geography by linking its core tenets to the history of the discipline of Geography
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This handbook is recognition of the need to better integrate physical and human geography. It combines a collection of work and research within the new field of Critical Physical Geography, which gives critical attention to relations of social power with deep knowledge of a particular field of biophysical science. Critical Physical Geography research accords careful attention to biophysical landscapes and the power relations that have increasingly come to shape them, and to the politics of environmental science and the role of biophysical inquiry in promoting social and environmental justice.
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography lays out the scope and guiding principles of Critical Physical Geography research. It presents a carefully selected set of empirical work, demonstrating the range and intellectual strength of existing integrative work in geography research. This handbook is the first of its kind to cover this emerging discipline and willbe of significant interest to students and academics across the fields of geography, the environment and sustainability.
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Keywords
- Critical Physical Geography
- Crappy Landscapes
- Genealogy of Critical Physical Geography
- Landscape Archaeology
- Critical Invasion Sciences
- Mapping Ecosystem Services
- Environmental Justice in Infested Urban Spaces
- Constructing Conservation Value with Fungi
- Soils in Eco-Social Context
- Social Power and Biophysical Science
Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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CPG in Practice
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Reviews
“Students, both undergraduate and graduate, who find themselves at a similar crossroads in their academic careers will find the Handbook helpful. ... I wish that the Handbook would have been available when I first happened across CPG. Not only does it provide a useful guide for how to do CPG, it also provides a source of support, in a way, for CPG as a subdiscipline in itself.” (Maegen Rochner, The AAG Review of Books, Vol. 7 (3), 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rebecca Lave is Associate Professor in the Geography Department at Indiana University-Bloomington, USA.
Christine Biermann is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, USA.
Stuart N. Lane is Professor of Geomorphology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography
Editors: Rebecca Lave, Christine Biermann, Stuart N. Lane
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71461-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71460-8Published: 13 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10061-2Published: 09 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71461-5Published: 04 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 594
Number of Illustrations: 71 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Physical Geography, Environmental Geography