Environmental geography is centered on the interactions and relations of the biogeophysical environment with human societies. Environmental geographers are interested in environmental sustainability and well-being involving a wide range of human interactions that include political economy, social power, cultural identities, and others. A triad of features is introduced as distinguishing environmental geography from the related, synergistic elds within geography, in linked interdisciplinary elds, and beyond the discipline. Five principal categories of knowledge and practice are then identied as integral to environmental geography: overarching or high-level theory; intermediate or mid-range theory; specic concepts; methodologies and methods; and major, widely recognized topics and issues that are galvanizing for science, scholarship, policy, and public interest. This new model of knowledge–practice is used to examine six of the major focus areas: (i) Environmental resource management and biodiversity conservation amid development and social change; (ii) Climate change adaptation, natural hazards, vulnerability, and resilience; (iii) Urban environmental systems; (iv) Multiscale deforestation and reforestation; (v) Food, agriculture, environment, and health; and (vi) Energy and society transitions. Examples are detailed in the rst pair of focus areas in order to discuss how environmental geographers assemble networks of knowledge–practice in order to create general understanding and useful insights. These knowledge–practice networks enable environmental geographers to work across theories and concepts, methods, and analysis in areas of urgent social need.
Dr. Yashpal Singh Narwaria Currently working as Assistant Professor Government College, Porsa, Morena, Madhya Pradesh India did his M.Sc., PhD in the eld of Environmental Science from Jiwaji University Gwalior. India. He also worked as Technical Ofcer in the Ministry of Rural Development Government of India and has track record of 12 years teaching experience for UG and PG classes in the Various College of Univerity of Delhi and Jiwaji University Gwalior Madhya Pradesh. He taught Environmental Science. Agro-Forestry and Zoology. He published 15 research papers published national and international peer reviewed Journals and was authors/ editors for 3 books.
Preface Chapter 1 Environmental Geography Chapter 2 Ecosystem Chapter 3 Biodiversity Chapter 4 Environmental Pollution Chapter 5 Environmental Chapter 6 Environmental History Chapter 7 Marxism and The Environment Chapter 8 Ecological Modernization Chapter 9 Hydrosphere Chapter 10 Lithosphere Chapter 11 Population growth Chapter 12 Population control Chapter 13 Agriculture Chapter 14 Renewable Resource Chapter 15 Nonrenewable Resource Chapter 16 Industrialization and Urbanization Chapter 17 The Environment and Society Chapter 18 The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 Chapter 19 Environmental health Chapter 20 Environmental Laws and Acts Chapter 21 Environmental Pollution and Waste Management Chapter 22 Resource Conservation Bibliography
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