Companion to Environmental Studies

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<P><EM>Companion to Environmental Studies</EM> presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, debates, concepts, approaches and questions that together define environmental studies today. The intellectually wide-ranging volume covers approaches in environmental science all the way through to humanistic and post-natural perspectives on the biophysical world. </P><P>Though many academic disciplines have incorporated studying the environment as part of their curriculum, only in recent years has it become central to the social sciences and humanities rather than mainly the geosciences. ¿The environment¿ is now a keyword in everything from fisheries science to international relations to philosophical ethics to cultural studies. The <EM>Companion</EM> brings these subject areas, and their distinctive perspectives and contributions, together in one accessible volume. Over 150 short chapters written by leading international experts provide concise, authoritativ