Review: The SAGE Handbook of Nature

Abstract

The British publisher SAGE has a long tradition in reference books related to environmental studies, after George Philander's edited Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change and Paul Robbins's edited Sage Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Totaling almost 70 pages, the general introductory chapter situates this handbook's approach which aims to conceive "Nature, the environment and natural processes at the heart of interdisciplinary social sciences" (p. LX). [...]editor Terry Marsden adds that "this Handbook is explicitly multidisciplinary in scope and contents; and it attempts to problematize the quest and agenda for interdisciplinary environmental social science..." (p. LX). Most of the final chapters focus on emerging trends in Urban Studies. Because of its cutting-edge dimension and given its retail price, this SAGE Handbook of Nature could certainly be considered as an important resource for libraries in Englishspeaking universities; but maybe not for the "Reference" section, because graduate students might want to borrow these three volumes separately, one at the time.