Over 150 short chapters written by leading international experts provide a concise, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, debates, concepts, approaches and questions that together define environmental studies today.

List of contributors Preface Introduction Part 1: Classic concepts Part 2: Contemporary concepts Part 3: Classic approaches Part 4: Contemporary approaches Part 5: Key topics: environmental challenges and changes Part 6: Key topics: human responses to environmental change Part 7: Key debates Index

Noel Castree is Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester, UK.

Mike Hulme is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK.

James D. Proctor is Professor of Environmental Studies at Lewis & Clark College, USA.