Political ecology: an integrative approach to geography and environment-development studies

Chapter 1 Approaching political ecology: society, nature, and scale in human-environment studies / Karl S. Zimmerer and Thomas J. Bassett

Part I Protected areas and conservation

Chapter 2 Balancing conservation with development in marine-dependent communities: is ecotourism an empty promise? / Emily H. Young

Chapter 3 Strategies for authenticity and space in Maya Biosphere Reserve, Peteń, Guatemala / Juanita Sundberg

Part II Urban and industrial environments

Chapter 4 Toward a political ecology or urban environmental risk: the case of Guyana / Mark Pelling

Chapter 5 Modernity and the production of the Spanish waterscape, 1890-1930 / Erik Swyngedouw

Part III Ecological analysis and theory in resource management and conservation

Chapter 6 The Ivorian Savanna: global narratives and local knowledge of environmental change / Thomas J. Bassett and Koli Bi Zueĺi

Chapter 7 Environmental zonation and mountain agriculture in Peru and Bolivia: socioenvironmental dynamics of overlapping patchworks and agrobiodiversity conservation / Karl S. Zimmerer

Chapter 8 Environmental science and social causation in the analysis of Sahelian pastoralism / Matthew Turner

Part IV Geospatial technologies and knowledges

Chapter 9 Fixed categories in a portable landscape the causes and consequences of land cover categorization / Paul Robbins

Chapter 10 GIS representations of nature, political ecology, and the study of land use and land cover change in South Africa / Brent McCusker and Daniel Weiner

Part V North-South environmental histories

Chapter 11 Material-conceptual landscape transformation and the emergence of pristine myth in early colonial Mexico / Andrew Sluyter

Chapter 12 The production of nature: colonial recasting of the African landscape in Serengeti National Park / Rodericj P. Neumann

Chapter 13 Agroenvironments and slave strategies in the diffusion of rice culture to the Americas / Judith Carney

Chapter 14 Future directions in political ecology: nature-society fusions and scales of interaction / Karl S. Zimmrer and Thomas J. Bassett.