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Introducing Critical Physical Geography

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In this chapter, the Handbook editors introduce the emerging field of Critical Physical Geography. We explain its core tenets and its primary methodological principles and epistemological assumptions. We address intellectual and practical barriers to the kind of careful integrative eco-social research that typifies Critical Physical Geography and also the reasons why it is worth overcoming those barriers. After an overview of the structure of the Handbook, we close with a discussion of why the field of Geography is home to this effort to integrate attention to power relations and their material impacts with deep knowledge of particular biophysical systems.

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  1. Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Rebecca Lave

  2. Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Christine Biermann

  3. Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Stuart N. Lane

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    Christine Biermann

  3. Université de Lausanne, Gryon, Switzerland

    Stuart N. Lane

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Lave, R., Biermann, C., Lane, S.N. (2018). Introducing Critical Physical Geography. In: Lave, R., Biermann, C., Lane, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71461-5_1

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