Sustainable development and the crisis of nature on the political anatomy of an oxymoron / Wolfgang Sachs -- The North as/and the other: ecology, domination, solidarity / Yrjö Haila -- Nature in spiritual traditions: social and cultural implications for environmental change / Carolyn Egri -- Engineering the environment: the politics of nature development / Jozef Keulartz -- Eco-managerialism: environmental studies as a power/knowledge formation / Timothy Luke -- Mapping complex social-natural relationships: cases from Mexico and Africa / Peter J. Taylor -- Security and solidarity: an anti-reductionist analysis of environmental policy / Michael Thompson -- The environment of justice / David Harvey -- Images of place in green politics: the cultural mirror of indigenous traditions / Douglas Torgerson -- Partnership ethics and cultural discourse: women and the earth summit / Carolyn Merchant.