Nature

<p>Exploring the shifting ways in which geographers have studied nature this book emphasizes the relationships and differences between human geography physical geography and resource and hazards geography. </p><p>The first to consider the topic of nature in modern geography as a whole this distinctive text looks at all its major meanings from the human body and psyche through to the non-human world and develops the argument that student readers should abandon the idea of knowing what nature is in favour of a close scrutiny of what agendas lie behind competing conceptions of it. It deals with amongst others the following areas:</p><ul> <li>the idea of nature </li> <li>the 'nature' of geography </li> <li>de-naturalization and re-naturalization</li> <li>after-nature.</li> </ul><p>As everything from global warming to GM foods becomes headline news the use and abuse of nature is on the agenda as never before. Synthesizing a wealth of diverse and complex information this text makes the significant theories debates and information on nature accessible to students of geography environmental studies sociology and cultural studies.</p>