Companion to Environmental Studies - 9781138192201

Taylor & Francis

Companion to Environmental StudiesAuthor(s): Noel Castree, Mike Hulme, James D. Proctor\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138192201, 978-1138192201\nSynopsis\nCompanion 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. \n\nThough many academic disciplines have incorporated studying the environment as part of their curriculum, only in recent years has it become central to the social sciences and humanities rather than mainly the geosciences. The environment is now a keyword in everything from fisheries science to international relations to philosophical ethics to cultural studies. The Companion brings th.