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Global political ecology / edited by Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, and Michael Watts - xiv, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Global nature / Excess consumption or over-production? : US farm policy, global warming, and the bizarre attribution of obesity / Killing for profit : global livestock industries and their socio-ecological implications / "Modern" industrial fisheries and the crisis of overfishing / When people come first : beyond technical and theoretical quick-fixes in global health / Global garbage : waste, trash trading, and local garbage politics / Green evictions : environmental discourses of a "slum-free" Delhi / The politics of certification : consumer knowledge, power, and global governance in ecolabeling / Climate change and the risk industry : the multiplication of fear and value / Carbon colonialism? : offsets, greenhouse gas reductions, and sustainable development / The natures of the beast : on the new uses of the honeybee / Taking the jungle out of the forest : counter-insurgency and the making of national natures / Mutant ecologies : radioactive life in post-Cold War New Mexico / Past peak oil : political economy of energy crises / The geopolitics of energy security and the War on Terror : the case for market expansion and the militarization of global space / Commons versus commodities : political ecologies of water privatization / The social construction of scarcity : the case of water in Western India / Governing disorder : biopolitics and the molecularization of life / Transnational transgenes : the political ecology of maize in Mexico / Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, and Michael Watts -- Julie Guthman -- Jody Emel and Harvey Neo -- Becky Mansfield -- João Biehl -- Sarah A. Moore -- D. Asher Ghertner -- Sally Eden -- Leigh Johnson -- A.G. Bumpus and D.M. Liverman -- Jake Kosek -- Nancy Lee Peluso and Peter Vandergeest -- Joseph Masco -- Gavin Bridge -- Mazen Labban -- Karen Bakker -- Lyla Mehta -- Bruce Braun -- Joel Wainwright and Kristin L. Mercer

"The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies. This critical volume draws together contributions from 25 leading intellectuals in the field. It begins with an introductory chapter that introduces the readers to political ecology and summarises the book's main findings. The following seven sections cover topics on the political ecology of war and the disaster state; fuelling capitalism: energy scarcity and abundance; global governance of health, bodies, and genomics; the contradictions of global food; capital's marginal product: effluents, waste, and garbage; water as a commodity, human right, and power; the functions and dysfunctions of the global green economy; political ecology of the global climate; and carbon emissions. This book contains accounts of the main currents of thought in each area that bring the topics completely up-to-date. The individual chapters contain a theoretical introduction linking in with the main themes of political ecology, as well as empirical information and case material. Global Political Ecology serves as a valuable reference for students interested in political ecology, environmental justice, and geography."--Jacket

ISBN: 9780415548144 0415548144 9780415548151 0415548152 9780203842249 0203842243

LCCN: 2010012691

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Political ecology

LC Class. No.: JA75.8 / .G56 2011

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