Foreword / Dipesh Chakrabarty
Introduction: A postcolonial environmental humanities.

Part I. The politics of earth: Forests, gardens, plantations. 1. Narrativizing nature: India, empire, and environment / David Arnold
2. "The Perverse Little People of the Hills:" Unearthing ecology and transculturation in Reginald Farrer's alpine plant hunting / Jill Didur
3. Bagasse: Caribbean art and the debris of the sugar plantation / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
4. Writing a native garden?: Environmental language and post-Mabo literature in Australia / Susan K. Martin.

Part II. Disaster, vulnerability, and resilience. 5. Towards a postcolonial disaster studies / Anthony Carrigan
6. Nuclear disaster: The Marshall Islands experience and lessons for a post-Fukushima world
7. Island vulnerability and resilience: Combining knowledges for disaster risk reduction, including climate change adaptation / Ilan Kelman, JC Gaillard, Jessica Mercer, James Lewis, and Anthony Carrigan.

Part III. Political ecologies and environmental justice. 8. The edgework of the clerk: Resilience in Arundhati Roy's Walking the the Comrades / Susie O'Brien
9. Filming the emergence of popular environmentalism in Latin America: Postcolonialism and Buen Vivir / Jorge Marcone
10. Witnessing the nature of violence: Resource extraction and political ecologies in the contemporary African novel / Byron Caminero-Santangelo.

Part IV. Mapping world ecologies. 11. Narrating a global future: Our Common Future and the public hearings of the World Commission on environment and development / Cheryl Lousley
12. Oil on sugar: Commodity frontiers and peripheral aesthetics / Michael Niblett
13. Ghost Mountains and Stone Maidens: Ecological imperialism, compound catastrophe, and the Post-Soviet ecogothic / Sharae Deckard.

Part V. Terraforming, climate change, and the anthropocene. 14. Terraforming planet earth / Joseph Masco
15. Climate change, cosmology, and poetry: The case of Derek Walcott's Omeros / George B. Handley
16. Ordinary futures: Interspecies worldings in the anthropocene / Elizabeth Deloughrey.