The SAGE Handbook of Nature
The SAGE Handbook of Nature
Editor/Author
Marsden, Terry
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: Sage UK
Single-User Purchase Price:
$615.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$922.50
ISBN: 978-1-44-629857-2
Category: Science - Environmental sciences
Image Count:
93
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The SAGE Handbook of Nature offers an ambitious retrospective and prospective overview of the field that aims to position Nature, the environment and natural processes, at the heart of interdisciplinary social sciences.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- Notes on the Editors and Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Volume 1
- PART I SUSTAINABILITY AND GOVERNANCE: SOME STARTING POINTS
- 1 Introduction to Part One: Sustainability and Governance: Some Starting Points - Terry Marsden
- 2 Re-Reading Sustainability through the Triple Helix Model in the Frame of a Systems Perspective - Francesca Farioli, Sergio Barile, Marialuisa Saviano and Francesca Iandolo
- 3 Environmental Philosophy and Environmental Ethics for Sustainability - Robin Attfield
- 4 The Role of Social Science in Nature–Society Transitions - Kjell Andersson and Stefan Sjöblom
- 5 Understanding the Evolving Relationship between Tourism and Nature in an Era of Sustainability - Alison M. Gill
- 6 Governance Mechanisms as Promoters of Governability: A Political Science Perspective on Institutional Complexity - Stefan Sjöblom and Kjell Andersson
- 7 Nature Governance: A Multimodal View - Abid Mehmood
- 8 Purposeful institutional change for Adaptive Governance of Natural Resources: How to Cater for Context and Agency? - Andreas Thiel and Farhad Mukhtarov
- PART II NATURAL AND SOCIO-NATURAL VULNERABILITIES: INTERWEAVING THE NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
- 9 Introduction to Part Two: Natural and Socio-natural Vulnerabilities: Interweaving the Natural and Social Sciences - Wendy Larner
- 10 Human Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Hazards - Ilan Kelman, JC Gaillard and Ben Wisner
- 11 Epistemic Politics of Climate Change - Martin Mahony
- 12 A New Biopolitics of Environmental Health: Permeable Bodies and the Anthropocene - Becky Mansfield
- 13 Nature, Critique, Ontology, and Decolonial Options: Problematising ‘The Political’ - Mark Jackson
- PART III SPACING NATURES: SUSTAINABLE PLACE–MAKING AND ADAPTATION
- 14 Introduction to Part Three: Spacing Natures: Resourceful and Resilient Community Environmental Practice - Alex Franklin
- 15 Spacing Conservation Practice: Place-Making, Social Learning, and Adaptive Landscape Governance in Natural Resource Management - Daniel R. Williams
- 16 Politics of Connectivity: The Relevance of Place-Based Approaches to Support Sustainable Development and the Governance of Nature and Landscape - L.G. Horlings
- 17 Resilience of Resource Communities: Perspectives and Challenges - Juha Kotilainen
- 18 Sustainability, Justice, and the Problem of Scale: Place-making as a ‘Multi-scalar Fix’ in Urban Environmental Politics - Joseph Pierce
- PART IV COUPLED AND (DE-COUPLED) SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
- 19 Introduction to Part Four: Utilising a Coupled Social-Ecological Systems Approach for Place-Based Analysis - Susan Baker and Isabelle Durance
- 20 Resilience and Adaptation in Coupled Natural-Social Systems: A Place-Based Perspective - Susan Baker and Isabelle Durance
- 21 Coupled Social-Ecological Systems: Insights from Seagrass Meadows in the Turks and Caicos Islands - Jessica Paddock, Susan Baker, Leanne Cullen-Unsworth, Alastair Smith and Richard Unsworth
- 22 Ecological Localism – Re-coupling People, Place and Nature - Mark Robins and Adrian Southern
- Volume 2
- PART V RISK AND THE ENVIRONMENT: SOCIAL THEORIES, PUBLIC UNDERSTANDINGS, & THE SCIENCE-POLICY INTERFACE
- 23 Introduction to Part Five: Risk and Rationality: The ‘Frame Problem’ Revisited, from the Laboratory to the Public Sphere - Brian H MacGillivray and Nick F Pidgeon
- 24 Social Theories of Risk and the Environment - Ortwin Renn
- 25 Decision-Making about the Environment - Victoria Campbell-Arvai, Douglas Bessette, Robyn Wilson and Joseph Arvai
- 26 Public Engagement with Risk and the Science–Policy Interface: A Perspective on Techno-Visionary Science and Innovation - Phil Macnaghten
- PART VI HUNGRY AND THIRSTY CITIES AND THEIR REGIONS
- 27 Introduction to Part Six: Feeding Hungry and Thirsty Cities - Roberta Sonnino and Ana Moragues-Faus
- 28 Urban Food Governance in the Global North - Wendy Mendes and Roberta Sonnino
- 29 Urban Food Security in Developing Countries: Policy Trajectories for Urban Africa - Jane Battersby
- 30 Conflicting Demands, Urban Dilemmas and Narrow Thinking about Water: Political Necessity and the Possibilities of Change - Antonio A R Ioris
- 31 The Role of Small Urban Centres in Food Security and Rural Transformations - Cecilia Tacoli
- PART VII CRITICAL CONSUMERISM AND ITS MANUFACTURED NATURES
- 32 Introduction to Part Seven: Sustainability and Inequality: Reviewing Critical Issues in Understanding Consumer–Food Relationships in Global Modernity - Gert Spaargaren and Peter Oosterveer
- 33 Supermarkets, ‘the Consumer’ and Responsibilities for Sustainable Food - David Evans, Daniel Welch and Joanne Swaffield
- 34 The Retail Sector and Sustainable Food Provision in Thailand - Kanang Kantamaturapoj
- 35 Consumers, Food Security, and Transformations in Food Retail in Vietnam - Sigrid Wertheim-Heck
- 36 Accessing Sustainable Food: New Figurations of Food Provision in the Making? - Peter Oosterveer and Gert Spaargaren
- PART VIII GENDERED NATURES AND ECOFEMINISM
- 37 Introduction to Part Eight: Gendered Nature and Ecofeminism - Susan Buckingham
- 38 Across the Development Divide: A North–South Perspective on Environmental Democracy - Seema Arora-Jonsson
- 39 Men at Work: Scientific and Technical Solutions to the ‘Problem’ of Nature - Joane Nagel
- 40 Refiguring Motherhood and Maternalism in Ecofeminism - Niamh Moore
- 41 What do Women and Nature Have in Common: Affinity, Contingency or Material Relation? - Mary Mellor
- PART IX PRODUCTIVE NATURE: PLANTS, ANIMALS AND PEOPLE
- 42 Introduction to Part Nine: Making Nature Productive: Stories of Farmed and Wild Salmon, Cows’ Choice, Good Bugs, Earthworms and Gardening - Mara Miele
- 43 Redistributing Labour in Automated Milking Systems and the More-Than-Human (Co)Production of Dairy Farming - Christopher Bear and Lewis Holloway
- 44 Accumulating Goods: Valuing Practices in the Production of Insects for Crop Protection - Stephanie Lavau
- 45 Modes of Naturing: Or Stories of Salmon - Heather Swanson, John Law and Marianne E. Lien
- 46 Global Worming: Politics of Nature and Earth(Worm) Systems - Filippo Bertoni
- 47 Urban Community Gardening: Producing New Spaces of Social Nature in the City - Paul Milbourne
- Volume 3
- PART X NATURE, CLASS AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY
- 48 Introduction to Part Ten: What Nature and Which Society? The Complexities of Nature–Society Relationships in the Anthropocene - Shonil Bhagwat
- 49 The Role of Sacred Natural Sites in Conflict Resolution: Lessons from the Wonsho Sacred Forests of Sidama, Ethiopia - Zerihun Doffana
- 50 Social Equity in the Context of Forest Conservation: Insights from REDD+ Projects in Cambodia and Kenya - Christina Ender
- 51 Non-Native Invasive Species: Nature, Society and the Management of Novel Nature in the Anthropocene - Shonil Bhagwat
- 52 Community Places, Contested Spaces: A Political Ecology of Italian Sacred Natural Sites between Cooperation and Conflict - Fabrizio Frascaroli
- 53 Marginalisation of Traditional Groups and the Degradation of Nature - Emma Shepheard-Walwyn
- PART XI BIO-SENSITIVITY AND THE ECOLOGIES OF HEALTH
- 54 Introduction to Part Eleven: Biosensitivity – an Integrative Approach to the Health of People and Planetary Systems - Anthony Capon
- 55 Adopting a Public Health Ecology Approach to a Key Food Security Issue: Apiary, Biodiversity and Conservation - Ferne Edwards, Jane Dixon and Ruth Beilin
- 56 Nature Contact and Human Health - Howard Frumkin
- 57 Health, Population, Limits and the Decline of Nature - Colin D. Butler and Kerryn Higgs
- 58 A Bio-Sensitive and Nutritious Food Source: The Kangaroo and Troubled Nature–Society Relations - Michelle Young and Jane Dixon
- PART XII THE RESOURCE NEXUS AND ITS RELEVANCE
- 59 Introduction to Part Twelve: The Resource Nexus and its Relevance - Raimund Bleischwitz
- 60 A Water Perspective on the Water–Energy–Food Nexus - Carole Dalin
- 61 Resources Nexus: The Importance for Asia and the Role of Institutions - Adnan A. Hezri and Michelle Kwa
- 62 Fertilizers: Food Security and the Resource Nexus - Minpeng Chen, Yunfan Wan and Li Yue
- 63 Industrial Symbiosis – a Bottom-Up Business Response to Nexus Challenges - Teresa Domenech Aparisi
- 64 Institutions and the Governance of the Resource Nexus: The Case of Nitrogen Fertilizers in China - Philip Andrews-Speed
- PART XIII SUSTAINABLE URBAN COMMUNITIES
- 65 Introduction to Part Thirteen: Urban Natures: Sustainable Communities - Alison Blay-Palmer
- 66 Metabolism of Global Cities: London, Manchester, Chicago - Harriet Friedmann
- 67 A Tree Grows on West 22nd Street: Public Art, Nature, and the Transformation of Urban Communities - Hannah Nelson-Teutsch
- 68 From Field to Table: Building a Cooperative Sustainable Food System in Balance with Nature - Cassie Wever and Debbie Field
- 69 Nature as Threat and Opportunity in the Peri-Urban Fringe - Guy M Robinson
- PART XIV RURAL NATURES AND THEIR CO-PRODUCTION
- 70 Introduction to Part Fourteen: Rural Natures and their Co-Production - Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
- 71 Agroecology and the Restoration of Organic Metabolisms in Agrifood Systems - Paulo Petersen
- 72 The Contested Nature of the Farmed Landscape - Jørgen Primdahl
- 73 Rural Landscapes in Dispute: on Coproduction, Farming Styles and Resource Diversity in Western Mexico - Peter R.W. Gerritsen
- 74 Different Farming Strategies and the Shaping of Agricultural Landscapes: The Case of the Netherlands - Sabine de Rooij