Introduces the readers to political ecology and summaries the various findings. This title covers 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; and, more.

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

"Global Political Ecology is a critical book at a critical time. Political ecology has come of age and established global stature. A timely and important book. Read it!" Professor Piers Blaikie, University of East Anglia. "This is an important and provocative volume that relates key themes in political ecology to the political economy of global capitalism and policy failure. It breaks new ground by addressing topics vital to understanding contemporary social and environmental crises that have hitherto not received due attention. Certain to be a landmark text in the field." Professor Raymond Bryant, King’s College London"Global environmental problems, from climate change to the food we eat, loom heavily over us while policy makers fiddle with environmental agreements that ignore the sources of these burning issues. Global Political Ecology speaks to our anxieties by drawing attention to the political economic contexts and sites of knowledge production in which all roads seem to lead to market-based solutions. This superb text offers a conceptual and theoretical toolkit that will empower students of global environmental change to shape alternative political ecologies." Professor Thomas J. Bassett, University of Illinois.