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| Preface to the German Edition | |
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| Preface to the English Edition | |
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| Thinking about Environmental History | |
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| Blinders and Dead Ends in Environmental History | |
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| The Sameness of Vicious Circles and the Complex Ways of Escaping Them | |
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| In the Depth of Time, and the Mysterious Regenerative Power of the Nature Idea | |
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| Trees or Sheep? The Problem of Value Judgments in Environmental History | |
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| Ecology as Historical Explanation: From the Collapse of Mayan Culture to the Great Irish Famine | |
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| Terra Incognita: Environmental History as Secret History or the History of the Obvious? | |
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| The Ecology of Subsistence and Tacit Knowledge: Primeval Symbioses of Humans and Nature | |
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| In the Beginning Was Fire: Global Slash-and-Burn Agriculture and Pyromania in Environmental History | |
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| Humans and Animals: Hunting and Domestication | |
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| Gardens and Fruit Trees | |
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| Farmers and Herders | |
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| The "Tragedy of the Commons" and the Plaggen Plague: Was Premodern Agriculture "Unconscious Plunder"? | |
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| Mother Earth and the Father in Heaven: On the Ecology of Religion | |
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| Water, Forests, and Power | |
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| Hydraulic Engineering, Power, and Ecological Chain Reactions | |
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| Egypt and Mesopotamia: An Archetypal Contrast | |
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| The Irrigated Terrace: A Socioecological Cell Culture | |
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| China as a Model and a Terrifying Vision | |
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| Water Civilizations within Constrained Spaces: Venice and the Netherlands | |
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| Malaria, Irrigation, Deforestation: Endemic Disease as Nature's Avenger and the Protector of Ecological Reserves | |
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| Deforestation and "Ecological Suicide" in the Mediterranean Region: A Fictitious Problem? Erosion in Harmony with Nature and Misleading Historicization | |
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| Forest and Power in Europe: From the Forest-Clearance Movement to the Era of Forest Regulations | |
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| Focal Points of an Early Consciousness of Crisis: Cities and Mining | |
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| Colonialism as a Watershed in Environmental History | |
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| The Mongol Empire and the "Microbial Unification of the World" | |
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| Ecological Dynamics in Overseas Colonialization | |
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| The Birth of the Global Perspective: Colonial and Insular Origins of Modern Environmental Awareness | |
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| Colonial and Postcolonial Turning Points in India's Environmental History | |
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| Yankee and Mushik Ecology | |
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| The Question of European Exceptionalism in Environmental History: The Effect of Colonialism on the Colonial Powers | |
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| At the Limits of Nature | |
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| Toward the Last Reserves | |
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| "Wo Mistus, da Christus" (Where there is dung, there is Christ): From the Fallow to the "Cult of Dung" and the Politicization of Agriculture | |
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| Alarm over Wood Scarcity, the Afforestation Movement, and the Rise of an Ecological Forest Apologetics | |
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| "Sweet, Holy Nature": The Ambiguous Development of the Modern Religion of Nature | |
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| Nature and Nation: Making Concrete the Nature in Need of Protection | |
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| The First Industrial Environmental Crisis and the Genesis of Basic Patterns of Modern Crisis Management | |
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| In the Labyrinth of Globalization | |
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| The Deepest Rupture in the History of the Environment: The Failed Americanization of the World | |
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| Blood and Soil: Self-Sufficiency Gone Mad | |
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| Substrata of Environmental Concerns: The Nuclear Apocalypse and Cancer Fears | |
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| Scientific, Spiritual, and Economic Origins of the Environmental Movement | |
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| Nepal, Bhutan, and Other Summit Perspectives: Environmental Problems in Tourism, Development Aid, and Space Flight | |
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| The Problems of Power and Uncertainty in Environmental Policy | |
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| Epilogue: How to Argue with Environmental History in Politics | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |