Part I: Theoretical and Historical Foundations.- Chapter 1. Global Environmental Change and the Evolution of World-Systems Thinking.- Chapter 2. Capital, Carbon, and the Climate System: Historical Drivers of Ecological Crisis.- Chapter 3. Climate as Structure and Process: A Systems Perspective on Ecological Transformation.- Chapter 4.

The Energy Transition in Historical Perspective: From Biomass to Fossil Fuels and Beyond.- Part II: Regional Dynamics and Systemic Inequalities.- Chapter 5. Climate Change and the Reproduction of Global Inequality.- Chapter 6. Peripheral Ecologies: Environmental Degradation at the Margins of the World-System.- Chapter 7. Ecological Imperialism Revisited: Land Grabs, Resource Frontiers, and Global Demand.

- Chapter 8. Urban Metabolism and the Global South: Climate Change and Infrastructural Fragility.- Part III: Actors, Institutions, and Movements.- Chapter 9. Hegemony and Climate Governance: Core States, Agreements, and the Limits of Multilateralism.- Chapter 10. Resistance from the Periphery: Indigenous, Peasant, and Climate Justice Movements.- Chapter 11.

Youth, Crisis, and Systemic Change: Generational Agency in a Warming World.- Chapter 12. Corporate Climate Strategies and the Future of Green Capitalism.- Part IV: Futures and Transformations.- Chapter 13. Modeling Future Climate and World-System Interactions: Risk, Collapse, and Adaptation.- Chapter 14. Toward a Just Energy Transition: Policy, Power, and Post-Carbon Futures.