A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics

Edited by Shannon O’Lear, Professor, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Studies Program, University of Kansas, US

Contents:

1 Environmental geopolitics: an introduction to questions and research
approaches 1
Shannon O’Lear

PART I INTERPRETING AND MEASURING THE ENVIRONMENT
2 Getting the measure of nature: the inconspicuous geopolitics of
environmental measurement 16
Brendon Blue and Marc Tadaki
3 Science, territory, and the geopolitics of high seas conservation 30
Noella J. Gray, Leslie Acton, and Lisa M. Campbell
4 The geopolitics of environmental global mapping services: an analysis
of Global Forest Watch 44
Birgit Schneider and Lynda Olman

PART II POWER, KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN–ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS
5 Conflicts, commodities and the environmental geopolitics of supply chains 59
Philippe Le Billon and Lauren Shykora
6 Underground geopolitics: science, race, and territory in Peru during the
late nineteenth century 74
Matthew Himley
7 Local knowledges and environmental governance: making space for
alternative futures in the Arctic circumpolar region and the
Mekong River Basin 88
Coleen A. Fox and Christopher Sneddon

PART III OVERCOMING SELECTIVE SPATIAL FOCUS
8 The geopolitics of transportation in the melting Arctic 105
Frédéric Lasserre and Pierre-Louis Têtu
9 Environmental geopolitics of rumor: the sociality of uncertainty
during northern Thailand’s smoky season 121
Mary Mostafanezhad and Olivier Evrard
10 Digging deep: crossing scale in the Georgian mining industry 136
Jesse Swann-Quinn
11 Looking ahead: environmental geopolitics research 151
Shannon O’Lear, Simon Dalby, Corey Johnson, and Stacy D. VanDeveer

Index 167