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Most explanations of environmental crisis emphasize the role of population growth, thus focusing their attention on the poor. By comparison, this book elaborates a political-economic explanation drawing from the most recent advance in social theory.
1 . Renewing political ecology: Liberating political ecology - The political ecology of famine, the origins of the third world - Invisible forests, the political ecology of forest resurgence in El Salvador. 2 . Discourse and practice: Environmental discourses on soil degradation in bolivia, sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental "middle ground" - Purity and pollution, racial degradation and environmental anxieties - Eco-governmentaly and other transnational practices of a "green" World Bank. 3 . Institutions and governance: N[...]

Most explanations of environmental crisis emphasize the role of population growth, thus focusing their attention on the poor. By comparison, this book elaborates a political-economic explanation drawing from the most recent advance in social theory.
1 . Renewing political ecology: Liberating political ecology - The political ecology of famine, the origins of the third world - Invisible forests, the political ecology of forest resurgence in El Salvador. 2 . Discourse and practice: Environmental discourses on soil degradation in bolivia, sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental "middle ground" - Purity and pollution, racial degradation and environmental anxieties - Eco-governmentaly and other transnational practices of a "green" World Bank. 3 . Institutions and governance: Nature-state-territory, toward a critical theorization of conservation enclosures - Water, markets, and embedded institutions in western India - Transition environments, ecological and social challenges to post-socialist industrial development. 4 . Conflict and struggle: Violent environments, petroleum conflict and the political ecology of rule in the Niger delta, Nigeria - Gender and class power in agroforestry systems, case
studies from Indonesia and west Africa - Gender conflict in Gambia Wetlands. 5 . Movement: Environment, indigeneity and transnationalism - From Chipko to Uttaranchal, the environment of protest and development in the indian Himalaya - Movements and modernizations, markets and municipalities, indigenous federations in rural Ecuador - Industrial pollution and social movements in Thailand.