The human-environment relationship is one of the most pressing concerns of the twenty-first century. Bringing together a range of global case studies to illustrate the broad range of current theories on this relationship, this book presents significant cutting-edge research into the continuing (re)definition of political ecology as it relates to environmental contestation.

Dr Michael K. Goodman is a Lecturer in Geography at King's College London, UK, Dr Maxwell T. Boykoff, is a Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, UK and Dr Kyle T. Evered, is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Michigan State University, USA.

Chapter 1 Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale, Michael K. Goodman, Maxwell T. Boykoff, Kyle T. Evered; Part 1 Translating Contentious Environmental Knowledge and Science; Chapter 2 The Contentious World of Jared Diamond's Collapse, Tim Forsyth; Chapter 3 Fight Semantic Drift!? Mass Media Coverage of Anthropogenic Climate Change, Maxwell T. Boykoff; Chapter 4 Whose Scarcity? The Hydrosocial Cycle and the Changing Waterscape of La Ligua River Basin, Chile, Jessica Budds; Part 2 Conflicting and Shifting Environmental Knowledges, Livelihoods, and Power; Chapter 5 'Environmentality' in Rajasthan's Groundwater Sector: Divergent Environmental Knowledges and Subjectivities, Trevor L. Birkenholtz; Chapter 6 Discursive Spearpoints: Contentious Interventions in Amazonian Indigenous Environments, Logan A. Hennessy; Part 3 Environmental Movements: Contested (Re)Scaling of Knowledges, Problems and Narratives; Chapter 7 Confronting Invisibility: Reconstructing Scale in California's Pesticide Drift Conflict, Jill Harrison; Chapter 8 Scale and Narrative in the Struggle for Environment and Livelihood in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Karen Schmelzkopf; Chapter 9 Making Local Places GE-Free in California's Contentious Geographies of Genetic Pollution and Coexistence, Dustin Mulvaney; Part 4 Contested Production of Environmental Science, Law, and Knowledge; Chapter 10 Regional Power and the Power of the Region: Resisting Dam Removal in the Pacific Northwest, Eve Vogel; Chapter 11 Law of Regions: Mining Legislation and the Construction of East and West, Johanna Haas; Part 5 Fraught Spatial Technologies and Knowledge Construction; Chapter 12 1An earlier and shorter version of this chapter was published as an Introduction to Mapping Communities: Ethics, Values, Practice (East-West Center, 2005) that documents the collection of case studies covered by our project. Yet another shorter communication was published as 'Mapping power: ironic effects of spatial information te