Global Ecological Politics -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- List of reviewers -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The background to global ecopolitics -- Introduction -- The modern environmental movement -- Principles of the environmental movement -- Examples of environmental movement activism -- The anti-toxics movement -- The love canal controversy -- Campaigns against incineration -- Cultural accounts of the anti-toxics movement -- Green Parties -- References -- Chapter 2. The green new deal: Restoring balance and stability to the global financial and ecosystem -- Introduction -- The historical background -- Managing money and debt-creation -- Interest as a social construct -- money as a free good -- Globalisation and the dismantling of Bretton Woods -- The design of a global, debt-based financial architecture -- Green new deal: The financial proposals -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3. The dilemma of justice: Foreign oil multinationals and human rights violation in the Niger Delta of Nigeria -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework1 -- Oil production in the Niger delta -- State and foreign oil companies versus host communities -- The Obasanjo regime and the Niger delta -- The way forward -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4. Alternative currency networks as utopian practice -- Introduction -- The hidden history of alternative money networks as political praxis -- Contemporary alternative money networks -- Alternative money networks as utopian practice -- Green money networks as utopian practice -- Green money in the future - a response to climate change? -- References -- Chapter 5. Elusive escapes? Everyday life and ecotopia -- Introduction -- Utopian escapes -- Spaces internal and spaces external: CAT's ecotopia -- Ecotopian culture, community and organisation -- Ecotopian tensions and tolerances.

Individualised interdependences and elusive escapes: towards connections and conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6. Towards a model of green political economy: From ecological modernisation to economic security -- Introduction -- Ecological modernisation in theory and practice -- Ecological modernisation and the United Kingdom's sustainable development strategy -- From economic growth to economic security -- Conclusion: Integrating ecological modernisation, innovation and economic security? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7. Green politics and anthropology -- Introduction -- Kay Milton: Cultural anthropology -- Berglund: Anthropology and environmentalism -- Brosius and environmental research -- Comments on Brosius -- Brosius on Berglund -- References -- Chapter 8. Environmental disputes in France -- Introduction -- French environmentalism -- The overbearing French state -- Examining resources and opportunities -- Biodiversity conflicts: N2000 and local environmental actors -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9. Ecotourism and sustainability in the tourism sector -- Introduction -- Community problematic -- Community participation in tourism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10. The politics of waste, consumption and sustainability in the republic of Ireland -- Introduction: The politics of growth and waste -- Measuring smart growth -- The 'Celtic Tiger' and the political economy of waste -- Technocracy, problem solving and planning? -- Power, communication and conflict -- Productivity and sustainability - binary opposites? -- Towards a green Ireland? -- Notes -- References.