Anna Grichting, a Swiss architect and urbanist, is currently teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Architecture and urban planning at Qatar University.Michele Zebich-Knos is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs, and founding Director of the Master of Science in International Policy Management Program at Kennesaw State University/University System of Georgia (Atlanta, USA). She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Vermont’s Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security and is author of numerous publications on environmental policy.

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• Introduction: Social Ecologies and Borderlands; Part I: Frames: Mapping Social Ecologies in Border Territories; 1. On the Agency of Borderlands; 2. Social Ecology and Transboundary Conservation: (Re-) Connecting Nature and People in Borderlands; 3. Social Ecologies as “Gated Ecologies”; Part II: Bridges: Resilience, Restoration and Reclamation; 4. Borders as Zones of Experiential Learning: The Case of the Balkans Peace Park Initiative; 5. Social Ecologies in Borderlands: Crane Habitat Restoration and Sustainable Agriculture Project in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; 6. Socio-Ecological Transformations in Riparian Zones: The Production of Spaces of Exclusion and the Uneven Development of Resilience in the Sonoran Borderlands ; 7. From No-Man’s Land to Every-Man’s Land: Socio-Ecological Approaches to Reclaiming Shared Spaces in Border Landscapes, with Examples from Germany and Cyprus; Part III: Corridors: Catalysts and Collaboration in Confined Spaces; 8. Ensuring Hope in Militarized Landscapes: The Case of Lebanon; 9. Domesticating and Enlarging One’s Territory: Day-to-Day Politics in a Confined Space—The Shu’Fat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem; 10. Urban Alternatives and Collaborative Economics in Belfast’s Contested Space; Part IV: Portals: Dialogue, Exception and Reterritorialization; 11. Australia Day: A Social Ecology Dialogue across Aboriginal and White Cultures; 12. Re-Legislating the Soil: Enclosures and Exception at the Amazon Frontiers; 13. Mediterranean Edges: Reterritorializing Natural and Social Ecologies; Making Sense of Social Ecology, Borders and the Environment: A Conclusion; Index.