Introduction : Problematizing the politics of sustainability / Rob Krueger and David Gibbs -- Impossible "sustainability" and the postpolitical condition / Erik Swyngedouw -- Sustaining modernity, modernizing nature : the environmental crisis and the survival of capitalism / Roger Keil -- Microgeographies and microruptures : the politics of gender in the theory and practice of sustainability / Susan Buckingham -- Containing the contradictions of rapid development? New economy spaces and sustainable urban development / David Gibbs and Rob Krueger -- Greening the entrepreneurial city? Looking for spaces of sustainability politics in the competitive city / Andrew E.G. Jonas and Aidan While -- Integrating sustainabilities in a context of economic, social, and urban change : the case of public spaces in the metropolitan region of Barcelona / Marc Pares and David Saurâi -- Political modernization and the weakening of sustainable development in Britain / Anna Batchelor and Alan Patterson -- Spatial policy, sustainability, and state restructuring : a reassessment of sustainable community building in England / Mike Raco -- The spatial politics of conservation planning / James P. Evans -- The Imperial Valley of California : sustainability, water, agriculture, and urban growth / Stephanie Pincetl and Basil Katz.