A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of human-environment geography in an accessible and comprehensive way. Cross-cuts several areas of a discipline which has traditionally been seen as divided; presenting work by human and physical geographers in the same volume Presents both the current state of the art research and charts future possibilities for the discipline Extends the term environmental geography beyond its traditional meanings to include new work on nature and environment by human and physical geographers - not just hazards, resources, and conservation geographers Contains essays from an outstanding group of international contributors from among established scholars and rising stars in geography