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Part 1 Currents in the environmental movement: the cult of wilderness;the gospel of eco-efficiency; environmental justice and the environmentalismof the poor. Part 2 Ecological economics - "taking nature into account": theorigins and scope of ecological economics; no production withoutdistribution; disputes on value standards; Ludwig von Mises' pricelesswaterfall and Otto Neurath's naturalrechnung; emergent complexity andpost-normal science. Part 3 Indices of (un)sustainability andneo-Malthusianism: HANPP, eco-space and EROI, MIPS and DMR; the"dematerialization" of consumption?; time and space, and the discount rate;carrying capacity; feminist neo-Malthusianism. Part 4 Poltiical ecology - thestudy of ecological distribution conflicts: environmentalism avant-la-lettre- copper mining in Japan; one hundred years of pollution in Peru; the storyof Rio Tinto and other stories; Bougainville and West Papua; pollutionmiracles, and the social construction of nature; the origins and scope ofpolitical ecology; property rights and resource management. Part 5 Mangrovesvs. shrimps: a tragedy of enclosures; Ecuador, Honduras and Colombia; shrimpfarming in south and south east Asia; mangroves threatened in East Africa;the turtle conundrum and the demand for a consumers' boycott of farm-raisedshrimp; cost-benefit vs. value pluralism. Part 6 The environmentalism of thepoor - gold, oil, forests, rivers, biopiracy: conflicts on gold mining; oilin the Niger delta, and the birth of OilWatch; oil in Guatemala; the caseagainst Unocal and Total because of the Yadana gas pipeline; plantations arenot forests; stone container in Costa Rica; San Ignacio; the defence of theforests in India and Brazil; defending the rivers against development;underground water in India; international biopiracy vs. the value of localknowledge; farmers' rights and eco-Narodnism; InBio-Merck; Shamanpharmaceuticals; who has the power to simplify complexity?. Part 7 Indicatorsof urban unsustainability as indicators of social conflicts: the century ofthe motor car?; Lewis Mumford's relevant views; ecological economics andcities; Ruskin in Venice; scale and footprints; energy and evolution;pollution struggles in India, and Brimblecombe's hypothesis. Part 8Environmental justice in the United States and South Africa: fighting"environmental racism"; wilderness vs. the environmentalism of the poor inSouth Africa; the Basel convention; environmental liabilities and uncertainrisks - superfund; Yucca mountain. Part 9 The state and other actors:governance and environmental policy; environmental movements and the state;Endosulfan and cashew nuts; the environment and human rights; resistance asthe path to sustainability; the relevance of SEN; gender and the environment.Part 10 The ecological debt: ecologically unequal exchange; memories of guanoand quebracho; quantifying the ecological debt; the carbon debt -contraction, convergence and compensation; losing FACE; ecologi