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The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography

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Editors:
  1. Rebecca Lave

    1. Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA

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  2. Christine Biermann

    1. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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  3. Stuart N. Lane

    1. Université de Lausanne, Gryon, Switzerland

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  • 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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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introducing Critical Physical Geography

      • Rebecca Lave, Christine Biermann, Stuart N. Lane
      Pages 3-21

    3. Towards a Genealogy of Critical Physical Geography

      • Stuart N. Lane, Christine Biermann, Rebecca Lave
      Pages 23-47

    4. In Defense of Crappy Landscapes (Core Tenet #1)

      • Michael A. Urban
      Pages 49-66

    5. A Framework for Understanding the Politics of Science (Core Tenet #2)

      • Leonora King, Marc Tadaki
      Pages 67-88

    6. The Impacts of Doing Environmental Research (Core Tenet #3)

      • Justine Law
      Pages 89-103

  3. CPG in Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. The Trouble with Savanna and Other Environmental Categories, Especially in Africa

      • Chris S. Duvall, Bilal Butt, Abigail Neely
      Pages 107-127

    3. Between Sand and Sea: Constructing Mediterranean Plant Ecology

      • Diana K. Davis
      Pages 129-151

    4. How the West Was Spun: The De-politicization of Fire in the American West

      • Gregory L. Simon
      Pages 153-178

    5. Critical Physical Geography in Practice: Landscape Archaeology

      • Daniel Knitter, Wiebke Bebermeier, Jan Krause, Brigitta Schütt
      Pages 179-200

    6. Shifting Climate Sensitivities, Shifting Paradigms: Tree-Ring Science in a Dynamic World

      • Christine Biermann, Henri D. Grissino-Mayer
      Pages 201-225

    7. Forest Land-Use Legacy Research Exhibits Aspects of Critical Physical Geography

      • David Robertson, Chris Larsen, Steve Tulowiecki
      Pages 227-248

    8. Critical Invasion Science: Weeds, Pests, and Aliens

      • Christian A. Kull
      Pages 249-272

    9. Mapping Ecosystem Services: From Biophysical Processes to (Mis)Uses

      • Simon Dufour, Xavier Arnauld de Sartre, Monica Castro, Michel Grimaldi, Solen Le Clec’h, Johan Oszwald
      Pages 273-293

    10. Beyond “the Mosquito People”: The Challenges of Engaging Community for Environmental Justice in Infested Urban Spaces

      • Dawn Biehler, Joel Baker, John-Henry Pitas, Yinka Bode-George, Rebecca Jordan, Amanda E. Sorensen et al.
      Pages 295-318

    11. Circulating Wildlife: Capturing the Complexity of Wildlife Movements in the Tarangire Ecosystem in Northern Tanzania from a Mixed Method, Multiply Situated Perspective

      • Mara J. Goldman
      Pages 319-338

    12. Race, Nature, Nation, and Property in the Origins of Range Science

      • Nathan F. Sayre
      Pages 339-356

    13. Coffee, Commerce, and Colombian National Soil Science (1929–1946)

      • Greta Marchesi
      Pages 357-372
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About this book

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 will be of significant interest to students and academics across the fields of geography, the environment and sustainability. 

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

  • Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Rebecca Lave

  • University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Christine Biermann

  • Université de Lausanne, Gryon, Switzerland

    Stuart N. Lane

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

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