Exploring the shifting ways in which geographers have studied nature, this book emphasizes the relationships and differences between human geography, physical geography and resource and hazards geography. The first to consider the topic of nature in modern geography as a whole, this distinctive text looks at all its major meanings, from the human body and psyche through to the non-human world, and develops the argument that student readers should abandon the idea of knowing what nature is in favour of a close scrutiny of what agendas lie behind competing conceptions of it. It deals with, amongst others, the following areas: the idea of nature the 'nature' of geography de-naturalization and re-naturalization after-nature. As everything from global warming to GM foods becomes headline news, the use and abuse of nature is on the agenda as never before. Synthesizing a wealth of diverse and complex information, this text makes the significant theories, debates and information on nature accessible to students of geography, environmental studies, sociology, and cultural studies.

诺埃尔•卡斯特里（Noel Castree），英国地理学家，曼彻斯特大学环境与发展学院教授。他一直寻求并探索一种用马克思主义观理解一系列环境问题的方法。其在人文地理学界的重要贡献是：突破了自然-社会二元论，提出并发展了批判地理学中的著名概念“社会的自然”。主要著作还有《工作空间：全球资本主义与劳动力地理学》）《自然意像》（Making sense of nature ，2014）。