Contents: 1. Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Environmental Issues: The Inner-Connections of Conservation, Agriculture, and Livelihoods Karl Zimmerer; Part I. Spatialities in Global Conservation and Sustainability Projects: 2. Certifying Biodiversity: Conservation Networks, Landscape Connectivity, and Certified Agriculture in Southern Mexico,Tad Mutersbaugh; 3. Satellite Remote Sensing for Management and Monitoring of Certified Forestry: An Example from the Brazilian Amazon, Jane M. Read; 4. Productive Conservation and Its Representation: The Case of Beekeeping in the Brazilian Amazon, J. Christopher Brown; Part II. Linking Scales in Livelihood Analysis and Global Environmental Science: 5. Urban House-Lot Gardens and Agrodiversity in Santarém, Pará, Brazil: Spaces of Conservation That Link Urban with Rural, Antoinette M. G. A. WinklerPrins; 6. Multilevel Geographies of Seed Networks and Seed Use in Relation to Agrobiodiversity Conservation in the Andean Countries, Karl Zimmerer; 7. Shifting Scales, Lines, and Lives: The Politics of Conservation Science and Development in the Sahel, Matthew D. Turner; Part III. Transnational and Border Issues in Global Conservation Management: 8. Conservation Initiatives and "Transnationalization" in the Mekong River Basin, Chris Sneddon; 9. A Transnational Perspective on National Protected Areas and Ecoregions in the Tropical Andean Countries, Rodrigo Sierra; 10. Development of Peru’s Protected-Area System: Historical Continuity of Conservation Goals, Kenneth R. Young and Lily O. Rodríguez; Part IV. Decentralization and Environmental Governance in Globalization: 11. Conservation, Globalization, and Democratization: Exploring the Contradictions in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala, Juanita Sundberg; 12. Decentralization, Land Policy, and the Politics of Scale in Burkina Faso, Leslie C. Gray; 13. Fences, Ecologies, and Changes in Pastoral Life: Sandy Land Reclamation in Uxin Ju, Inner Mongolia, China, Hong Jiang; Conclusion: Rethinking the Compatibility, Consequences, and Geographic Strategies of Conservation and Development, Karl Zimmerer