1. Liberation Ecology: Development, sustainability, and environment in an age of market triumphalism /Richard Peet and Michael Watts -- 2. Constructing Nature: Elements for a poststructural political ecology / Arturo Escobar -- 3. Improved Seeds and Constructed Scarcity / Lakshman Yapa -- 4. Movements, Modernizations, and Markets: Indigenous organizations and agrarian strategies in Ecuador / Anthony Bebbington -- 5. Discourses on Soil Loss in Bolivia: Sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental "middle ground" / Karl S. Zimmerer -- 6. Marxism, Culture, and Political Ecology: Environmental struggles in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands / Donald S. Moore -- 7. Defining Deforestation in Madagascar /Lucy Jarosz -- 8. Converting the Wetlands, Engendering the Environment: The intersection of gender with agrarian change in Gambia / Judith A. Carney.

9. Gender and Class Power in Agroforestry Systems: Case Studies from Indonesia and West Africa / Richard A. Schroeder and Krisnawati Suryanata -- 10. From Chipko to Uttaranchal: Development, environment, and social protest in the Garhwal Himalayas, India /Haripriya Rangan -- 11. The Political Ecology of Agrarian Reform in China: The case of Heilongjiang Province / Joshua S. S. Muldavin -- 12. Conclusion: Towards a theory of liberation ecology / Michael Watts and Richard Peet.