The SAGE Handbook of Nature

The editors of this handbook have assembled an impressive set of contributions from leading environmental social scientific researchers to produce a conceptually rich survey and sometime political manifesto, which demonstrates the vitality of academic research at the nature-society interface today. These volumes will be an invaluable guide for those seeking to understand the broad conceptual trading zones around nature, society, politics, economics, and health that now constitute environmental social sciences, as well as those looking for the novel case studies, policy innovations, and political ideas that indicate the potential of transdisciplinary approaches to complex socio-ecological systems in the future.

• Introduction to the Handbook - Terry Marsden PART 01: SUSTAINABILITY AND GOVERNANCE: SOME STARTING POINTSChapter 1: Introduction to Part One : Sustainablity and Governance: some starting points. - Terry Marsden Chapter 2: Re-reading sustainability through the Triple Helix model in the frame of a systems perspective - Francesca Farioli, Sergio Barile, Marialuisa Saviano, Francesca IandoloChapter 3: Environmental Philosophy and Environmental Ethics for Sustainability - Robin AttfieldChapter 4: The role of social science in nature-society transitions - Kjell Andersson and Stefan Sjöblom Chapter 5: Understanding the evolving relationship between tourism and nature in an era of sustainability - Alison M. Gill Chapter 6: Governance Mechanisms as Promoters of Governability: a Political Science Perspective on Institutional Complexity - Stefan Sjöblom and Kjell Andersson Chapter 7: Nature Governance: A multimodal view - Abid MehmoodChapter 8: Purposeful institutional change for Adaptive Governance of Natural Resources: How to Cater for Context and Agency? - Andreas Thiel and Farhad Mukhtarov PART 02: NATURAL AND SOCIO-NATURAL VULNERABILITIES: INTERWEAVING THE NATURAL & SOCIAL SCIENCESChapter 9: Introduction to Part Two: Natural and Socio-natural Vulnerabilities: Interweaving the natural and social sciences - Wendy LarnerChapter 10: Human Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Hazards - Ilan Kelman, JC Gaillard and Ben WisnerChapter 11: Epistemic politics of climate change - Martin MahonyChapter 12: A new biopolitics of environmental health: permeable bodies and the Anthropocene - Becky MansfieldChapter 13: Nature, Critique, Ontology, and Decolonial Options: Problematising ‘The Political’ - Mark JacksonPART 03: SPACING NATURES: SUSTAINABLE PLACE MAKING AND ADAPTATIONChapter 14: Introduction to Part Three: Spacing Natures: Resourceful and Resilient Community Environmental Practice - Alex FranklinChapter 15: Spacing Conservation Practice: Place-Making, Social Learning, and Adaptive Landscape Governance in Natural Resource Management - Daniel R. WilliamsChapter 16: Politics of Connectivity: The Relevance of Place-Based Approaches to Support Sustainable Development and the Governance of Nature and Landscape - L.G. HorlingsChapter 17: Resilience of Resource Communities: Perspectives and Challenges - Juha KotilainenChapter 18: Sustainability, Justice, and the Problem of Scale: Place-making as a ‘Multi-scalar Fix’ in Urban Environmental Politics - Joseph PiercePART 04: COUPLED AND (DE-COUPLED) SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMSChapter 19: Introduction to Part Four: Utilising a Coupled Social-Ecological Systems Approach for Place Based Analysis - Susan Baker and Isabelle DuranceChapter 20: Resilience and Adaptation in Coupled Natural-Social Systems: A Place-Based Perspective - Susan Baker and Isabelle Durance Chapter 21: Coupled Social-Ecological Systems: Insights from Seagrass Meadows in the Turks and Caicos Islands - Jessica Paddock, Susan Baker, Leanne Cullen-Unsworth, Alastair Smith, Richard UnsworthChapter 22: Ecological localism – re-coupling people place and nature - Mark Robins and Adrian Southern PART 05: RISK AND THE ENVIRONMENT: SOCIAL THEORIES, PUBLIC UNDERSTANDINGS, & THE SCIENCE-POLICY INTERFACEChapter 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 PidgeonChapter 24: Social theories of risk and the environment - Ortwin RennChapter 25: Decision-making about the environment - Victoria Campbell-Arvai, Douglas Bessette, Robyn Wilson and Joseph Arvai Chapter 26: Public Engagement with Risk and the Science-Policy Interface: A Perspective on Techno-Visionary Science and Innovation - Phil MacnaghtenPART 06: HUNGRY AND THIRSTY CITIES AND THEIR REGIONSChapter 27: Introduction to Part Six: Feeding Hungry and Thirsty Cities: An Introduction - Roberta Sonnino and Ana Moragues-FausChapter 28: Urban Food Governance in the Global North - Wendy Mendes and Roberta SonninoChapter 29: Urban food security in developing countries: Policy trajectories for urban Africa - Jane BattersbyChapter 30: Conflicting Demands, Urban Dilemmas and Narrow Thinking about Water: Political Necessity and the Possibilities of Change - Antonio A R IorisChapter 31: The role of small urban centres in food security and rural transformations - Cecilia TacoliPART 07:CRITICAL CONSUMERISM AND ITS MANUFACTURED NATURESChapter 32: Introduction to Part Seven: Sustainability and inequality: reviewing critical issues in understanding consumer – food relationships in Global Modernity - Gert Spaargaren and Peter OosterveerChapter 33: Supermarkets, ‘the consumer’ and responsibilities for sustainable food - David Evans, Daniel Welch and Joanne SwaffieldChapter 34: The Retail Sector And Sustainable Food Provision In Thailand - Kanang KantamaturapojChapter 35: Consumers, food security, and transformations in food retail in Vietnam - Sigrid Wertheim-Heck Chapter 36: Accessing sustainable food: new figurations of food provision in the making? - Peter Oosterveer and Gert SpaargarenPART 08: GENDERED NATURES AND ECO-FEMINISMChapter 37: Introduction to Part Eight: Gendered Nature and Ecofeminism - Susan BuckinghamChapter 38: Across the Development Divide: A North-South Perspective on Environmental Democracy - Seema Arora-JonssonChapter 39: Men at Work: Scientific and Technical Solutions to the “Problem” of Nature - Joane NagelChapter 40: Refiguring Motherhood and Maternalism in Ecofeminism - Niamh MooreChapter 41: What do women and nature have in common: affinity, contingency, or material relation? - Mary Mellor PART 09: REPRODUCTIVE NATURES: PLANTS, ANIMALS AND PEOPLEChapter 42: Introduction to Part Nine: Making nature productive: stories of farmed and wild salmons, cow’s choice, good bugs, earthworms and gardening - Mara MieleChapter 43: Redistributing labour in Automated Milking Systems and the more-than-human (co)production of dairy farming - Christopher Bear and Lewis HollowayChapter 44: Accumulating goods: Valuing practices in the production of Insects for Crop Protection - Stephanie LavauChapter 45: Modes of Naturing: or stories of salmon - Heather Swanson, John Law and Marianne E. LienChapter 46: Global Worming: politics of nature and earth(worm) systems - Filippo BertoniChapter 47: Urban community gardening: producing new spaces of social nature in the city - Paul MilbournePART 10: NATURE, CLASS AND SOCIAL INEQUALITYChapter 48: Introduction to Part Ten: What nature and which society?: The complexities of nature-society relationships in the Anthropocene - Shonil BhagwatChapter 49: The role of sacred natural sites in conflict resolution: lessons from Wonsho sacred forests of Sidama, Ethiopia - Zerihun DoffanaChapter 50: Social equity in the context of forest conservation. Insights from REDD+ projects in Cambodia and Kenya. - Christina EnderChapter 51: Non-native invasive species: Nature, society and the management of novel nature in the Anthropocene - Shonil BhagwatChapter 52: Community places, contested spaces: a political ecology of Italian sacred natural sites between cooperation and conflict - Fabrizio FrascaroliChapter 53: Marginalisation of Traditional Groups and the Degradation of Nature - Emma Shepheard-WalwynPART 11: BIO-SENSITIVITY & THE ECOLOGIES OF HEALTHChapter 54: Introduction to Part Eleven: Biosensitivity – an integrative approach to the health of people and planetary systems - Anthony Capon Chapter 55: Adopting a public health ecology approach to a key food security issue: apiary, bio-diversity and conservation - Ferne Edwards, Jane Dixon and Ruth BeilinChapter 56: Nature contact and human health - Howard Frumkin Chapter 57: Health, population, limits and the decline of nature - Colin D Butler and Kerryn Higgs Chapter 58: A Bio-Sensitive and Nutritious Food Source: The Kangaroo and Troubled Nature–Society Relations - Michelle Young and Jane DixonPart 12: THE RESOURCE NEXUS AND ITS RELEVANCEChapter 59: Introduction to Part Twelve: The Resource Nexus and its Relevance - Raimund BleischwitzChapter 60: A Water Perspective on the Water–Energy–Food Nexus - Carole DalinChapter 61: Resources Nexus: The Importance for Asia and the Role of Institutions - Adnan A. Hezri and Michelle KwaChapter 62: Fertilizers: Food Security and the Resource Nexus - Minpeng Chen, Yunfan Wan and Li YueChapter 63: Industrial Symbiosis – a Bottom-Up Business Response to Nexus Challenges - Teresa Domenech AparisiChapter 64: Institutions and the Governance of the Resource Nexus: The Case of Nitrogen Fertilizers in China - Philip Andrews-SpeedPart 13: SUSTAINABLE URBAN COMMUNITIESChapter 65: Introduction to Part Thirteen: Urban Natures: Sustainable Communities - Alison Blay-PalmerChapter 66: Metabolism of Global Cities: London, Manchester, Chicago - Harriet FriedmannChapter 67: A Tree Grows on West 22nd Street: Public Art, Nature, and the Transformation of Urban Communities - Hannah Nelson-TeutschChapter 68: From Field to Table: Building a Cooperative Sustainable Food System in Balance with Nature - Cassie Wever and Debbie FieldChapter 69: Nature as Threat and Opportunity in the Peri-Urban Fringe - Guy M RobinsonPart 14: RURAL NATURES AND THEIR CO-PRODUCTIONChapter 70: Introduction to Part Fourteen: Rural Natures and their Co-Production - Jan Douwe van der PloegChapter 71: Agroecology and the Restoration of Organic Metabolisms in Agrifood Systems - Paulo PetersenChapter 72: The Contested Nature of the Farmed Landscape - Jørgen PrimdahlChapter 73: Rural Landscapes in Dispute: on Coproduction, Farming Styles and Resource Diversity in Western Mexico - Peter R.W. GerritsenChapter 74: Different Farming Strategies and the Shaping of Agricultural Landscapes: The Case of the Netherlands - Sabine de Rooij