Global Political Ecology
2010; Informa; Linguagem: Inglês
10.4324/9780203842249
AutoresRichard Peet, Paul Robbins, Michael Watts,
Tópico(s)Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
ResumoChapter 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
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