Aid, social metabolism and social conflict in the Nicobar Islands / Simron Jit Singh, Willi Haas -- The mining enclave of the Cordillera del Cóndor / Gloria Chicaiza, Ivonne Yánez -- The Manta-Manaus project: nature, capital and plunder / Omar Bonilla -- High speed Transport Infrastructure (TAV) in Italy / Lucie Greyl [and others] -- Let them eat sugar: life and livelihood in Kenya's Tana Delta / Leah Temper -- South Africa's minerals-energy complex / Khadija Sharife, Patrick Bond -- Local governance and environment investments in Hiware Bazar, India / Supriya Singh -- Participatory forest management in Mendha Lekha, India / Supriya Singh -- Forestry and communities in Cameroon / Robinson Djeukam with Julien-François Gerber and Sandra Veuthey -- The waste crisis in Campania, Italy / Lucie Greyl [and others] -- The sedentarization of Tibetan Nomads: conservation or coercion? / Jampel Dell'Angelo -- Nautical tourism in the Lastovo Islands Nature Park / Zrinka Jakl [and others] -- Local communities and management of the Djerdap protected area in Serbia / Biljana Macura [and others] -- Payments for ecosystem services (PES) in India from the bottom-up / Supriya Singh -- The potential of REDD and legal reserve compensation in Mato Grosso, Brazil / João Andrade, Peter May -- Environmental justice and ecological debt in Belgium: the UMICORE case / Nick Meynen with Lea Sébastien -- ECOTICOS: multi-dimensional valuation for environmental conflict analysis in Costa Rica / Bernardo Aguilar-González, Azur Moulaert-- The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity: when is money valuation appropriate? / Beatriz Rodríguez Labajos, Joan Martinez-Aliier.
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From the publisher. Ecological Economics from the Ground Up takes a unique and much-needed bottom-up approach to teaching ecological economics and political ecology, using case studies that focus on a wide range of internationally relevant topics, to teach the principles, concepts, methods and tools of these fields, which are seen as increasingly important in the context of the current triple social, economic and environmental crisis. This book provides learning materials which are grounded in the experience of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), with case studies chosen by CSOs and developed collaboratively with leading ecological economists. The case studies come from Europe, India, Latin America, and Africa, and are presented thematically along three lines: 1) social metabolism and accounting methods, 2) institutions and participation, and 3) valuation and environmental policy tools. Core tools, concepts and glossary terms are embedded in topics chosen as a matter of urgency by activist organizations, related to mining and fossil fuel extraction, integrated transport infrastructure development, deforestation and agro-fuel production, sustainable tourism, waste management, wetlands and water management, payments for ecosystem services, natural disasters and hazards, and corporate accountability. Ecological Economics from the Ground Up has been designed to be an accessible learning aid for students of the sustainability sciences and for those CSOs that have recognised the value that ecological economics and political ecology tools and methods hold for their research and advocacy work.