《这片开裂的土地:印度生态史》分为三大部分，总共八章内容。在第一部分中，作者针对马克思主义生产方式范畴的局限，引入了“资源利用模式”这一概念。作者抓住人类社会与生物资源的关系，以生态学视角，依次阐述了四种资源利用模式，提出了生态史的一般理论，为后面的研究提供了分析框架。在第二部分中，作者对前殖民时期印度社会多元文化与多样化生态如何组合在一起给予新的解释，这是一种文化，生态学分析。在第三部分中，作者依据大量原始资料，对由英国引入并在印度独立后继续存在的新的资源利用模式进行了社会，生态学分析。

《法国环境政策的形成》主要探讨了法国国内几个有代表性的环境问题，分析应对政策，解释影响政策形成的各种因素，评估政策效果。另外，由于环境问题交叉性的特点，加上环境问题在西方民主国家被广泛政治化，《法国环境政策的形成》也考察了法国政治变迁的更广阔画面。

《工业革命以来的英国环境史》内容包括：污染与宜人、挥霍的经济体制及其可能的改革等内容。《工业革命以来的英国环境史》将以历史学的分支——环境史问世，然而，在英国对环境史的研究及其成果却乏善可陈。的确，环境史所涉及的内容在理论与写作上至今仍有争议。因此，环境史学者有机会，也有责任去阐述其研究领域到底应该包括哪些内容。如果断然认为自己的领域才是唯一值得研究的，这样的思维或做法未免过于轻率。不错，明确著述的范围可能有利于保护自己，或至少可以让那些喜欢抱怨的人们不敢妄加评论。否则，他们会说此书若是由他们来写，就不会沦落到这般地步。那么环境史到底应该论述哪些内容呢？

《消逝中的荒野:中国西部野生动物保护》的作者有时有意把中国西部的野生动物保护同北美西部（也就是美国和加拿大的西部）进行比较。作者的部分意图是让西方读者更容易理解中国的西部，而在中文版里，让中国读者了解一些北美西部的情况也有好处。无论哪种情况，作者本意都不是想说明北美的就是对的，中国的就是错的。作者的确认为中国必须发展自己独特的野生动物保护体系，虽然可以借鉴一点西方的经验，但也必须符合中国西部的历史、文化、经济和政治现实。人们往往能在同其他体系的比较中对自身的体系有更深的理解。因此，在谈到中国西部的时候，思考一下其他地区和其他的野生动物保护体系也并不是毫无裨益的。
这《消逝中的荒野:中国西部野生动物保护》并不是简单地罗列事实。书中阐述了作者的个人观点：尽管政府已制定了相关的政策并采取了保护行动，但中国西部野生动物的未来依然不容乐观。爱之愈深，责之愈切，这也是西方人的特性。作者热切地希望这些批评能被看做是（其本质上也的确是）一个真诚的朋友的诤言。

"Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes. He demonstrates how the power of the machine generates increasingly asymmetrical exchanges and distribution of resources and risks between distant populations and ecosystems, and thus an increasingly polarized world order. The author challenges us to reconceptualize the machine--industrial technomass"--as a species of power and a problem of culture. He shows how economic anthropology has the tools to deconstruct the concepts of production, money capital, and market exchange, and to analyze capital accumulation as a problem at the very interface of the natural and social sciences. His analysis provides an alternative understanding of economic growth and technological development. Hornborg's work is essential for researchers in anthropology, human ecology, economics, political economy, world-systems theory, environmental justice, and science and technology studies.

Book Description
A Council on Foreign Relations Book

China’s spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country’s natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China’s growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country’s future development.

Drawing on historical research, case studies, and interviews with officials, scholars, and activists in China, Economy traces the economic and political roots of China’s environmental challenge and the evolution of the leadership's response. She argues that China’s current approach to environmental protection mirrors the one embraced for economic development: devolving authority to local officials, opening the door to private actors, and inviting participation from the international community, while retaining only weak central control. The result has been a patchwork of environmental protection in which a few wealthy regions with strong leaders and international ties improve their local environments, while most of the country continues to deteriorate, sometimes suffering irrevocable damage. Economy compares China’s response with the experience of other societies and sketches out several possible futures for the country.