List of figuresList of contributorsAcknowledgementsPrologue: Losing California -- The political ecology of the megafiresMike DavisIntroduction: Urban political ecology for a climate emergencyYannis TzaninisTait MandlerMaria KaikaRoger KeilPart I Extended urbanisation: Moving UPE beyond the `urbanisation of nature' thesis1 Capital's natures: A critique of (urban) political ecologyErik Swyngedouw2 Urban political ecology versus ecological urbanismMatthew Gandy3 Towards the urban-natural: Notes on urban Utopias from the decolonial turnRoberto Luis Monte-MorEster Limonad4 Circuits of extraction and the metabolism of urbanisationMartin Arboleda5 Hinterlands of the CapitaloceneNeil BrennerNikos KatsikisPart II Situated urban political ecologies6 The case for reparations, urban political ecology, and the Black right to urban lifeNik HeynenNikki Luke7 Urban climate change and feminist political ecologyAndrea J. Nightingale8 Nairobi's bad naturesWangui Kimari9 Situating suburban ecologies in the Global South: Notes from India's urban peripheryShubhra Gururani10 Infrastructure beyond the modern ideal: Thinking through heterogeneity, serendipity, and autonomy in African citiesMary LawhonAnesu MakinaGloria Nsangi NakyagabaPart III More-than-human urban political ecologies and relational geographies11 Extending the boundaries of `urban society': The urban political ecologies and pathologies of Ebola virus disease in West AfricaRoger KeilS. Harris AliStefan Treffers12 In formation: Urban political ecology for a world of flowsKian Goh13 Insurgent earth: Territorialist political ecology in/for the new climate regimeCamilla PerronePart IV Addressing disjunctions between policy, politics, and academic debate14 Populist political ecologies? Urban political ecology, authoritarian populism, and the suburbsAlex LoftusJoris Gort15 Greenwashing and greywashing: New ideologies of nature in urban sustainability policyDavid WachsmuthHillary Angelo16 The peasant way or the urban way? Why disidentificationmatters for emancipatory politicsIrina Velicu17 Urbanising islands: A critical history of Singapore's offshore islandsCreighton ConnollyHamzah Muzaini18 The circular economy of cities: The good, the bad, and the uglyFederico SaviniEpilogue: Is an integrated UPE research and policy agenda possible?Tait MandlerRoger KeilYannis TzaninisMaria KaikaIndex