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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Introduction -- 1: Introducing Critical Physical Geography -- Barriers to Interdisciplinary1 Research -- Doing CPG Research: Structure and Methods -- Epistemology -- Relations to Cognate Fields -- Structure of this Handbook -- Conclusion -- References -- 2: Towards a Genealogy of Critical Physical Geography -- Introduction -- Early Academic Geography: From Integration to Schism -- Man (Sic) as a 'Unit Process' -- Systems and Integration -- Physical Geography and Engagements with Philosophy -- A Genealogy of a More Critical Physical Geography -- Towards a More Physical Critical Human Geography -- Conclusions -- References -- 3: In Defense of Crappy Landscapes (Core Tenet #1) -- Introduction -- The Age of Us -- Disturbance -- Crappy Landscapes -- Critical Theory and Crappy Landscapes: From Science to Intervention -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: A Framework for Understanding the Politics of Science (Core Tenet #2) -- Introduction -- Science, Facts, and Big-P Politics -- Scientific Choices and Their Consequences: A Small-p Politics of Science -- Theory -- Methodology and Data Availability -- Application-Driven Environmental Science: Why and for Whom? -- Institutions: Structuring Our Scientific Choices -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: The Impacts of Doing Environmental Research (Core Tenet #3) -- Introduction -- Fieldwork Impacts on Biophysical Environments -- Fieldwork Impacts on Social Relations -- Fieldwork Impacts on Socioecological Imaginaries -- The Impacts of Our Research Results -- Research in the Anthropocene -- Discussion and Future Directions -- References -- Part II: CPG in Practice -- 6: The Trouble with Savanna and Other Environmental Categories, Especially in Africa -- Geographic Philosophy and Society.

It has been convincingly argued that computer simulation modeling differs from traditional science. If we understand simulation modeling as a new way of doing science, the manner in which scientists learn about the world through models must also be considered differently. This article examines how researchers learn about environmental processes through computer simulation modeling. Suggesting a conceptual framework anchored in a performative philosophical approach, we examine two modeling projects undertaken by research teams in England, both aiming to inform flood risk management. One of the modeling teams operated in the research wing of a consultancy firm, the other were university scientists taking part in an interdisciplinary project experimenting with public engagement. We found that in the first context the use of standardized software was critical to the process of improvisation, the obstacles emerging in the process concerned data and were resolved through exploiting affordances for generating, organizing, and combining scientific information in new ways. In the second context, an environmental competency group, obstacles were related to the computer program and affordances emerged in the combination of experience-based knowledge with the scientists' skill enabling a reconfiguration of the mathematical structure of the model, allowing the group to learn about local flooding.

"Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics offers a collection of essays, written by a wide variety of international researchers in risk research, about what it means to do risk research, and about how - and with what effects - risk research is practiced, articulated and exploited. This approach is based upon the core assumption that: to make a difference in the study of risk, we must move beyond what we usually do, challenging the core assumptions, scientific, economic and social, about how we study, frame, exploit and govern risk. Hence, through a series of essays, the book aims to challenge the current ways in which risk-problems are approached and presented, both conceptually by academics and through the framings that are encoded in the technologies and socio-political and institutional practices used to manage risk."--