Section 1: Introduction -- 1. Introduction Critical Physical Geography; Rebecca Lave, Christine Biermann and Stuart Lane -- 2. Towards a Genealogy of Critical Physical Geography; Stuart Lane, Christine Biermann and Rebecca Lave -- 3. In Defense of Crappy Landscapes; Michael A. Urban -- 4. A Framework for Understanding the Politics of Science; Leonora King and Marc Tadaki -- 5. The Impacts of Doing Environmental Research; Justine Law -- Section 2: CPG in Practice -- 6. The Trouble with Savanna and Other Environmental Categories, Especially in Africa; Chris Duvall, Bilal Butt and Abigail Neely -- 7. Between Sand and Sea: Constructing Mediterranean Plant Ecology; Diana K. Davis -- 8. How the West was Spun: The De-Politicization of Fire in the American West; Gregory Simon -- 9. Critical Physical Geography in Practice: Landscape Archaeology; Daniel Knitter at al. -- 10. Shifting Climate Sensitivities, Shifting Paradigms: Tree-Ring Science in a Dynamic World; Christine Biermann and Henri Grissino-Mayer -- 11. Forest Land Use Legacy Research Exhibits Aspects of Critical Physical Geography; David Robertson, Chris Larsen and Steve Tulowiecki -- 12. Critical Invasion Sciences: Weeds, Pests, and Aliens; Christian A. Kull -- 13. Mapping Ecosystem Services: From Biophysical Processes to (Mis)Uses; Simon Dufour et al. -- 14. Beyond "The Mosquito People": The Challenges of Engaging Community for Environmental Justice in Infested Urban Spaces; Dawn Biehler et al. -- 15. Circulating Wildfire: Capturing the Complexity of Wildlife Movements in the Tarangire Ecosystem in Northern Tanzania from a Mixed Methods, Multiple Situated Perspective; Mara Goldman -- 16. Race, Class Conflict and the Origins of Range Management; Nathan F. Sayre -- 17. Coffee, Commerce, and Colombian National Social Science (1929-1946); Greta Marchesi -- 18. Who Values What Nature? Constructing Conservation Value with Fungi; Elizabeth S. Barron -- 19. Soils in Eco-Social Context: Soil pH and Social Relations of Power in a Northern Drava Floodplain and Agricultural Area; Salvatore Engel-DiMauro -- 20. Questions of Imbalance: Agronomic Science and Sustainability Assessment in Dryland West Africa; Matthew D. Turner -- 21. Commodifying Streams: A CPG Approach to Stream Mitigation Banking in the US; Rebecca Lave, Martin Doyle and Morgan Robertson -- 22. The Science and Politics of Water Quality; Javier Arce Nazario -- Section 3: Conclusion: Reflecting on Critical Physical Geography -- 24. Proliferating a New Generation of Critical Physical Geographers: Graduate Education in UMass's RiverSmart Communities Project; Nicole Gillett et al. -- 25. Charting a Critical Physical Geography Path in Graduate School: Sites of Student Agency; Lisa C. Kelley et al. -- 26. Critical Reflections on a Field in the Making; Christine Biermann, Stuart Lane and Rebecca Lave.