Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Currents of Environmentalism
  • 2. Ecological Economics: ‘Taking Nature into Account’
  • 3. Indices of (Un) Sustainability, and Neo-Malthusianism
  • 4. Political Ecology: The Study of Ecological Distribution Conflicts
  • 5. Mangroves Versus Shrimps
  • 6. The Environmentalism of the Poor: Gold, Oil, Forests, Rivers, Biopiracy
  • 7. Indicators of Urban Unsustainability as Indicators of Social Conflict
  • 8. Environmental Justice in the United States and South Africa
  • 9. The State and Other Actors
  • 10. The Ecological Debt
  • 11. On the Relations between Political Ecology and Ecological Economics Bibliography
  • Index.