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ENVS 689: The Political Ecology of Global Environment Change Report a Broken Link

Week 2: Criticisms of Political Ecology

Walker, P. A. (2005). Political ecology: Where is the ecology? Progress in Human Geography, 29(1), 73–82.

Week 6: Identifying the Politics in Political Ecology

Svarstad, H., Benjaminsen, T. A., & Overå, R. (2018). Power theories in political ecology. Journal of Political Ecology, 25(1), 350–363.
Paulson, S., Gezon, L. L., & Watts, M. (2003). Locating the political in political ecology: An introduction. Human Organization, 62(3), 205–217.
Optional Reading
Timmerman, P. (2005). Chapter 16: It’s not easy being green. In R. Keil, D. Bell, P. Penz, & L. Fawcett (Eds.), Political ecology: Global and local (pp. 317–327). Routledge.

Week 7: A Future for Political Ecology?

Friedmann, H. (2005). Chapter 4: A sustainable world food economy. In R. Keil, D. Bell, P. Penz, & L. Fawcett (Eds.), Political ecology: Global and local (pp. 85–98). Routledge.
Optional Reading
Keyfitz, N. (2005). Chapter 9: How do we know that there will be too many people? In R. Keil, D. Bell, P. Penz, & L. Fawcett (Eds.), Political ecology: Global and local (pp. 173–186). Routledge.

Week 8: Analyzing the Political Ecology of Climate Change

Sovacool, B. K. (2021). Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation. Energy Research & Social Science, 73, 101916.
Lutes, M. W. (2005). Chapter 8: Global climatic change. In R. Keil, D. Bell, P. Penz, & L. Fawcett (Eds.), Political ecology: Global and local (pp. 155–172). Routledge.
Optional Reading
Walker, P. A. (2005). Political ecology: where is the ecology? Progress in Human Geography, 29(1), 73–82.

Week 9: Gender and the Environment

Agarwal, Bina. (2005). Chapter 10: The gender and environment debate. In R. Keil, D. Bell, P. Penz, & L. Fawcett (Eds.), Political ecology: Global and local (pp. 189–214). Routledge.
Kettel, B. (2005). Chapter 11: Women, environment and development: From Rio to Beijing. In R. Keil, D. Bell, P. Penz, & L. Fawcett (Eds.), Political ecology: Global and local (pp. 215–233). Routledge.
Optional Reading
Sandilands, C. (2005). Chapter 12: The good-natured feminist: Ecofeminism and democracy. In R. Keil, D. Bell, P. Penz, & L. Fawcett (Eds.), Political ecology: Global and local (pp. 235–250). Routledge.

Week 10: Policy and Environmental Control

Brogden, M. J., & Greenberg, J. B. (2005). Chapter 3: The fight for the west: A political ecology of land-use conflicts in Arizona. In S. Paulson & L. L. Gezon (Eds.), Political ecology across spaces, scales, and social groups (pp. 41–60). Rutgers University Press.
Ferguson, A., & Derman, B. (2005). Chapter 4: Whose water? In S. Paulson & L. L. Gezon (Eds.), Political ecology across spaces, scales, and social groups (pp. 61–75). Rutgers University Press.
Optional Reading
Heyman, J. McC. (2005). Chapter 7: The political ecology of consumption: Beyond greed and guilt. In S. Paulson & L. L. Gezon (Eds.), Political ecology across spaces, scales, and social groups (pp. 113–132). Rutgers University Press.

Week 11: Social Hierarchies Defining Geopolitical and Global Relationships

Gezon, L. (2005). Chapter 8: Finding the global in the local: Environmental struggles in northern Madagascar. In S. Paulson & L. L. Gezon (Eds.), Political ecology across spaces, scales, and social groups (pp. 135–153). Rutgers University Press. 
Hornborg, A. (2005). Chapter 11: Undermining modernity: Protecting landscapes and meanings among the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia. In S. Paulson & L. L. Gezon (Eds.), Political ecology across spaces, scales, and social groups (pp. 196–214). Rutgers University Press.
Optional Reading
Paulson, S. (2005). Chapter 10: Gendered practices and landscapes in the Andes: The shape of asymmetrical exchanges. In S. Paulson & L. L. Gezon (Eds.), Political ecology across spaces, scales, and social groups (pp. 174–195). Rutgers University Press.

Week 12: The Politics of the Forest

Dove, M. R. (2005). Chapter 12: Shade: Throwing light on politics and ecology in contemporary Pakistan. In S. Paulson & L. L. Gezon (Eds.), Political ecology across spaces, scales, and social groups (pp. 217–238). Rutgers University Press.
Svarstad, H. (2005). Chapter 13: A global political ecology of bioprospecting. In S. Paulson & L. L. Gezon (Eds.), Political ecology across spaces, scales, and social groups (pp. 239–256). Rutgers University Press.
Optional Reading
Escobar, A., & Paulson, S. (2005). Chapter 14: The emergence of collective ethnic identities and alternative political ecologies in the Colombian Pacific rainforest. In S. Paulson & L. L. Gezon (Eds.), Political ecology across spaces, scales, and social groups (pp. 257–277). Rutgers University Press.

Week 13: Reassessing Political Ecology

Paulson, S., Gezon, L. L., & Watts M. (2005). Chapter 2: Politics, ecologies, genealogies. In S. Paulson & L. L. Gezon (Eds.), Political ecology across spaces, scales, and social groups (pp. 17–37). Rutgers University Press.