Global Political Ecology (Hardcover)

Chapter 1. Global Nature Michael Watts, Paul Robbins and Richard Peet  Part I: Food, Health and the Body: Political Ecology of Sustainability  Chapter 2. Excess Consumption or Over-production: US Farm Policy, Global Warming, and the Bizarre Atribution of Obesity Julie Guthman  Chapter 3. Killing for Profit: Global Livestock Industries and their Socio-Ecological Implications Jody Emel and Harvey Neo  Chapter 4. "Modern" Industrial Fisheries and the Crisis of Overfishing Becky Mansfield  Chapter 5. When People Come First: AIDS, Technical Fixes, and Social Innovation in the Global Health Market Joao Biehl  Part II: Capital’s Margins: The Political Ecology the Slum World  Chapter 6. Global Garbage: Waste, trash trading and local garbage politics Sarah A. Moore  Chapter 7. Green evictions: Environmental discourses of a "slum-free" Delhi Asher Ghertner  Part III: Risk, Certification and the Audit Economy: Political Ecology of Environmental Governance  Chapter 8. The Politics of Certification: Consumer Knowledge, Power and Global Governance in Ecolabelling Sally Eden  Chapter 9. Climate Change and the Risk Industry: The Multiplication of Fear and Value Leigh Johnson  Chapter 10. Carbon colonialism? Offsets, Greenhouse Gas Reductions and Sustainable Development A. G. Bumpus and D. M. Liverman  Part IV: War, Militarism and Insurgency: Political Ecology of Security  Chapter 11. The Natures of the Beast: On the New Uses of the Honey Bee Jake Kosek  Chapter 12. Taking the Jungle out of the Forest: Counter-insurgency and the Making of National Natures Nancy Lee Peluso and Peter Vandergeest  Chapter 13. Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico Joseph Masco  Part V: Fuelling Capitalism: Energy Scarcity and Abundance  Chapter 14. Past Peak Oil: Political Economy of Energy Crises Gavin Bridge  Chapter 15: Energy, Security, and Discourses of Empire and Terror Mazen Labban  Part VI: Blue Ecology: the Political Ecology of Water  Chapter 16. Commons versus Commodities: Political ecologies of water privatization Karen Bakker  Chapter 17. The Social Construction of Scarcity: The Case of Water in Western India Lyla Mehta  Part VII: Biopolitics and Political Ecology: Genes, Transgenes and Genomics  Chapter 18. Governing Disorder: Biopolitics and the Molecularization of Life Bruce Braun  Chapter 19. Transnational Transgenes: The Political Ecology of Maize in Mexico Joel Wainwright and Kristin L. Mercer