Political Ecology: An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment-Development Studies Book

Ch. 1	Approaching Political Ecology: Society, Nature, and Scale in Human-Environment Studies	1
Ch. 2	Balancing Conservation with Development in Marine-Dependent Communities: Is Ecotourism an Empty Promise?	29
Ch. 3	Strategies for Authenticity and Space in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Peten, Guatemala	50
Ch. 4	Toward a Political Ecology of Urban Environmental Risk: The Case of Guyana	73
Ch. 5	Modernity and the Production of the Spanish Waterscape, 1890-1930	94
Ch. 6	The Ivorian Savanna: Global Narratives and Local Knowledge of Environmental Change	115
Ch. 7	Environmental Zonation and Mountain Agriculture in Peru and Bolivia: Socioenvironmental Dynamics of Overlapping Patchworks and Agrobiodiversity Conservation	137
Ch. 8	Environmental Science and Social Causation in the Analysis of Sahelian Pastoralism	159
Ch. 9	Fixed Categories in a Portable Landscape: The Causes and Consequences of Land Cover Categorization	181
Ch. 10	GIS Representations of Nature, Political Ecology, and the Study of Land Use and Land Cover Change in South Africa	201
Ch. 11	Material-Conceptual Landscape Transformation and the Emergence of the Pristine Myth in Early Colonial Mexico	221
Ch. 12	The Production of Nature: Colonial Recasting of the African Landscape in Serengeti National Park	240
Ch. 13	Agroenvironments and Slave Strategies in the Diffusion of Rice Culture to the Americas	256
Ch. 14	Future Directions in Political Ecology: Nature-Society Fusions and Scales of Interaction	274
	Index	297
	About the Editors	307
	Contributors	309