Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction to the Reader -- Section 1 : Theoretical Foundations -- 1 The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology -- 2 Smallholders, Householders -- 3 Ecosystem Ecology in Biology and Anthropology -- 4 Gender and the Environment: A Feminist Political Ecology Perspective -- 5 A View from a Point: Ethnoecology as Situated Knowledge -- 6 The New Ecological Anthropology -- 7 Normative Behavior -- Section 2 : Population -- 8 Some Perspectives and Implications -- 9 Beyond Malthus: Sixteen Dimensions of the Population Problem -- 10 Reproductive Mishaps and Western Contraception: An African Challenge to Fertility Theory -- 11 Gender, Population, Environment -- 12 The Environment as Geopolitical Threat: Reading RobertKaplan's "Coming Anarchy" -- Section 3 : Large-Scale Economic Development -- 13 Energy and Tools -- 14 The Growth of World Urbanism -- 15 The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development" and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho -- 16 Income Levels and the Environment -- 17 Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development -- 18 Measuring up to Sustainability -- Section 4 : Conserving Biodiversity -- 19 The Third Stage of Ecological Anthropology: Processual Approaches -- 20 Conflicts over Development and Environmental Values: The International Ivory Trade in Zimbabwe's Historical Context -- 21 The Power of Environmental Knowledge: Ethnoecology and Environmental Conflicts in Mexican Conservation -- 22 Holding Ground -- 23 Does Biodiversity Exist? -- 24 Road Kill in Cameroon -- Section 5 : Managing The Environment -- 25 On Environmentality: Geo-Power and Eco-Knowledge in the Discourses of Contemporary Environmentalism -- 26 Radical Ecology and Conservation Science: An Australian Perspective -- 27 The Political Ecology of Deforestation in Honduras -- 28 Peasants and Global Environmentalism.

29 New World, New Deal: A Democratic Approach to Globalization -- 30 Individualism, Holism, and Environmental Ethics -- Section 6 : Indigenous Groups -- 31 Cultural Theory and Environmentalism -- 32 The Benefits of the Commons -- 33 Indigenous Initiatives and Petroleum Politics in the Ecuadorian Amazon -- 34 Endangered Forest, Endangered People: EnvironmentalistRepresentations of Indigenous Knowledge -- 35 Tribal Whaling Poses New Threat -- 36 On the Importance of Being Tribal: Tribal Wisdom -- Section 7 : Consumption and Globalization -- 37 How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? Science and the Globalization of Environmental Discourse -- 38 The Ecology of Global Consumer Culture -- 39 A World without Boundaries: The Body Shop's Trans/NationalGeographics -- 40 The Invisible Giant: Cargill and Its Transnational Strategies -- 41 Treading Lightly? Ecotourism's Impact on the Environment -- 42 Voluntary Simplicity and the New Global Challenge -- Contributors -- Index.