The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography

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

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. 

• 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

“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)

• Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA

  Rebecca Lave

• University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

  Christine Biermann

• Université de Lausanne, Gryon, Switzerland

  Stuart N. Lane

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. 

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