Synopsis This book offers comprehensive and up-to-date information on all key aspects of environmental geography. It explores the relationships between people and the world they inhabit. Readers are introduced to the key concepts and theories of environmental geography including physical and biological processes, population patterns, biogeography, environmental hazards, resource management and environmental ethics. It also provides an overview of the modern environmental dilemma and the factors that need to be examined in order to gain an understanding of the problem. Besides students and teachers of geography and environmental science, this book will be an essential reading for a wide range of audience who interested in the application of social knowledge to the understanding of global environmental problems. Its contents will enhance readers' abilities to understand, analyse and interpret the environmental problems the contemporary world is confronting from a geographic perspective and to participate in working to achieve improved environmental outcomes.