Global Political Ecology

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 summaries the books 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.

1. Global Nature Part 1: Food, Health and The Body: Political Ecology of Sustainability 2. Excess Consumption or Over-Production: US Farm Policy, Global Warming, and the Bizarre Atribution of Obesity 3. Killing for Profit: Global Livestock Industries and their Socio-Ecological Implications 4. "Modern" Industrial Fisheries and the Crisis of Overfishing 5. When People Come First: AIDS, Technical Fixes, and Social Innovation in the Global Health Market Part 2: Capital's Margins: The Political Ecology the Slum World 6. Global Garbage: Waste, Trash Trading and Local Garbage Politics 7. Green Evictions: Environmental Discourses of a "Slum-Free" Delhi Part 3: Risk, Certification and the Audit Economy: Political Ecology of Environmental Governance 8. The Politics of Certification: Consumer Knowledge, Power and Global Governance in Ecolabelling 9. Climate Change and the Risk Industry: The Multiplication of Fear and Value 10. Carbon Colonialism? Offsets, Greenhouse Gas Reductions and Sustainable Development Part 4: War, Militarism and Insurgency: Political Ecology of Security 11. The Natures of the Beast: On the New Uses of the Honey Bee 12. Taking the Jungle out of the Forest: Counter-Insurgency and the Making of National Natures 13. Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico Part 5: Fuelling Capitalism: Energy Scarcity and Abundance 14. Past Peak Oil: Political Economy of Energy Crises 15. Energy, Security, and Discourses of Empire and Terror Part 6: Blue Ecology: the Political Ecology of Water 16. Commons versus Commodities: Political Ecologies of Water Privatization 17. The Social Construction of Scarcity: The Case of Water in Western India Part 7: Biopolitics and Political Ecology: Genes, Transgenes and Genomics 18. Governing Disorder: Biopolitics and the Molecularization of Life 19. Transnational Transgenes: The Political Ecology of Maize in Mexico