Global political ecology / edited by Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, and Michael Watts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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