Global Political Ecology (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Peet, Richard; Watts, Michael; Robbins, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136904325
• Artikelnr.: 42983616

Autorenporträt

Richard Peet is Professor of Geography at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. Paul Robbins is Professor and Director of the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona. Michael J. Watts is Professor of Geography, and Co-Director of Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

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