Thomas K. Park is professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona.

James B. Greenberg is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg

Chapter 1. The Anthropocene and other noxious concepts

Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg

Chapter 2. The Political Ecology of Climate Change

James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park

Chapter 3. Digital Sensing and Human-Environment Relationships in the Face of Climate Variability in Senegal and Mauritania

Thomas K. Park, Aminata Niang and Mamadou Baro

Chapter 4. The Political Ecology of Languagelessness of the Southwest North American Region: Case Studies in the Linguistic Commoditization of Mexican Origin People

Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez

Chapter 5. Political Ecology of Guitars and their Tonewoods

James B. Greenberg

Chapter 6. Indigenous responses to colonialism in an island state: a geopolitical ecology of Kanaky-New Caledonia

Simon Batterbury, Séverine Bouard, and Matthias Kowasch

Chapter 7. An Everyday Politics of Access: The Political Ecology of Infrastructure in Cape Town's Informal Settlements

Angela Storey

Chapter 8. Land Tenure Issues and Socio-Political Challenges in Mauritania

Mamadou Baro

Chapter 9. Complicity and Resistance in the Indigenous Amazon: Economia Indigena Under Siege

Alaka Wali

Chapter 10. Dolphin Hunters or Dolphin Saviors: Cultural Identity Choices Under Intensifying Sea Level Rise, Cash-Dependence, and a New Eco-Christian Conservation

Sarah Keen Meltzoff

Chapter 11. When Pachamama is Left Hungry: Healing and Misfortune in the Atacama Desert

Anita Carrasco

Chapter 12. Place Matters: Tracking Coastal Restoration after the Deepwater Horizon

Diane Austin and Victoria Phaneuf

Chapter 13. Practicing Political Ecology in the New Restoration Economy

Ravic P. Nijbroek

Chapter 14. Nature conservation and the ambiguous human-nature relationship

Ylva Uggla

Chapter 15. Hope and Possibility for Transformation in Ordinary Acts of Well-Being on a Bicycle-Pedestrian Trail

Lisa L. Gezon

Conclusion

James B. Greenberg, Thomas K. Park, Simon Batterbury, Casey Walsh, Edward Liebow

References

Index
About the Editors & Contributors

Drawing on a broad range of case studies, the contributors to Terrestrial Transformations explore the political and economic forces entangled in environmental and ecological problems and look at humanity's future in light of climate change and existing environmental problems.