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List of figures | p. viii |
List of tables | p. ix |
List of images | p. x |
Notes on contributors | p. xi |
Preface | p. xiii |
Global nature | p. 1 |
Food, health, and the body: political ecology of sustainability | p. 49 |
Excess consumption or over-production?: US farm policy global warming, and the bizarre attribution of obesity | p. 51 |
Killing for profit: global livestock industries and their socio-ecological implications | p. 67 |
ôModernö industrial fisheries and the crisis of overfishing | p. 84 |
When people come first: beyond technical and theoretical quick-fixes in global health | p. 100 |
Capital's margins: the political ecology of the slum world | p. 131 |
Global garbage: waste, trash trading, and local garbage politics | p. 133 |
Green evictions: environmental discourses of a ôslum-freeö Delhi | p. 145 |
Risk, certification, and the audit economy: political ecology of environmental governance | p. 167 |
The politics of certification: consumer knowledge, power, and global governance in ecolabeling | p. 169 |
Climate change and the risk industry: the multiplication of fear and value | p. 185 |
Carbon colonialism? Offsets, greenhouse gas reductions, and sustainable development | p. 203 |
War, militarism, and insurgency: political ecology of security | p. 225 |
The natures of the beast: on the new uses of the honeybee | p. 227 |
Taking the jungle out of the forest: counter-insurgency and the making of national natures | p. 254 |
Mutant ecologies: radioactive life in post-Cold War New Mexico | p. 285 |
Fuelling capitalism: energy scarcity and abundance | p. 305 |
Past peak oil: political economy of energy crises | p. 307 |
The geopolitics of energy security and the war on terror: the case for market expansion and the militarization of global space | p. 325 |
Blue ecology: the political ecology of water | p. 345 |
Commons versus commodities: political ecologies of water privatization | p. 347 |
The social construction of scarcity: the case of water in western India | p. 371 |
Biopolitics and political ecology: genes, transgenes, and genomics | p. 387 |
Governing disorder: biopolitics and the molecularization of life | p. 389 |
Transnational transgenes: the political ecology of maize in Mexico | p. 412 |
Index | p. 431 |
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