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 HANDBOOK

NATURAL AND SOCIO-NATURAL VULNERABILITIES: INTERWEAVING THE NATURAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES

SPACING NATURES: SUSTAINABLE PLACE MAKING AND ADAPTATION

COUPLED AND (DE-COUPLED) SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

RISK AND THE ENVIRONMENT: SOCIAL THEORIES, PUBLIC UNDERSTANDINGS, & THE SCIENCE-POLICY INTERFACE

HUNGRY AND THIRSTY CITIES AND THEIR REGIONS

CRITICAL CONSUMERISM AND ITS MANUFACTURED NATURES

GENDERED NATURES AND ECO-FEMINISM

REPRODUCTIVE NATURES: PLANTS, ANIMALS AND PEOPLE

NATURE, CLASS AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY

BIO-SENSITIVITY & THE ECOLOGIES OF HEALTH

THE RESOURCE NEXUS AND ITS RELEVANCE

SUSTAINABLE URBAN COMMUNITIES

RURAL 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.