Call number:
PIK D 024-11-0136
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: Chapter 1. Global Nature ; 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 ; Chapter 3. Killing for Profit: Global Livestock Industries and their Socio-Ecological Implications ; Chapter 4. "Modern" Industrial Fisheries and the Crisis of Overfishing ; Chapter 5. When People Come First: AIDS, Technical Fixes, and Social Innovation in the Global Health Market ; Part II: Capital's Margins: The Political Ecology the Slum World ; Chapter 6. Global Garbage: Waste, trash trading and local garbage politics ; Chapter 7. Green evictions: Environmental discourses of a "slum-free" Delhi ; 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 ; Chapter 9. Climate Change and the Risk Industry: The Multiplication of Fear and Value ; Chapter 10. Carbon colonialism? Offsets, Greenhouse Gas Reductions and Sustainable Development ; 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 ; Chapter 12. Taking the Jungle out of the Forest: Counter-insurgency and the Making of National Natures ; Chapter 13. Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico ; Part V: Fuelling Capitalism: Energy Scarcity and Abundance ; Chapter 14. Past Peak Oil: Political Economy of Energy Crises ; Chapter 15: Energy, Security, and Discourses of Empire and Terror ; Part VI: Blue Ecology: the Political Ecology of Water ; Chapter 16. Commons versus Commodities: Political ecologies of water privatization ; Chapter 17. The Social Construction of Scarcity: The Case of Water in Western India ; Part VII: Biopolitics and Political Ecology: Genes, Transgenes and Genomics ; Chapter 18. Governing Disorder: Biopolitics and the Molecularization of Life ; Chapter 19. Transnational Transgenes: The Political Ecology of Maize in Mexico
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XIV, 444 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:
9780415548151
Location:
A 18 - must be ordered
Branch Library:
PIK Library
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