This book introduces political ecology to a new generation of students in a daring new way: as an interdisciplinary approach to environmental research but also as a series of lived realities and a praxis for change.

1 Discovering political ecology 2 Power 3 Scale 4 Nature 5 Urbanisation 6 Water 7 Energy 8 Fields and forests 9 Virtual political ecology 10 Seminar activities

Gustav Cederlöf is an Associate Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Alex Loftus is Professor of Political Ecology at King's College London, UK.