The SAGE Handbook of Nature

The SAGE Handbook of Nature offers an ambitious retrospective and prospective overview of the field that aims to position Nature, the environment and natural processes, at the heart of interdisciplinary social sciences.The three volumes are divided into the following parts: INTRODUCTION TO THE HANDBOOKNATURAL AND SOCIO-NATURAL VULNERABILITIES: INTERWEAVING THE NATURAL & SOCIAL SCIENCESSPACING NATURES: SUSTAINABLE PLACE MAKING AND ADAPTATIONCOUPLED AND (DE-COUPLED) SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMSRISK AND THE ENVIRONMENT: SOCIAL THEORIES, PUBLIC UNDERSTANDINGS, & THE SCIENCE-POLICY INTERFACEHUNGRY AND THIRSTY CITIES AND THEIR REGIONSCRITICAL CONSUMERISM AND ITS MANUFACTURED NATURESGENDERED NATURES AND ECO-FEMINISMREPRODUCTIVE NATURES: PLANTS, ANIMALS AND PEOPLENATURE, CLASS AND SOCIAL INEQUALITYBIO-SENSITIVITY & THE ECOLOGIES OF HEALTHTHE RESOURCE NEXUS AND ITS RELEVANCESUSTAINABLE URBAN COMMUNITIESRURAL NATURES AND THEIR CO-PRODUCTION This handbook is a key critical research resource for researchers and practitioners across the social sciences and their contributions to related disciplines associated with the fast developing interdisciplinary field of sustainability science.