Introduction: Anthropological explorations of incongruous perspectives in the economics of ecology, exchange, and adpatation -- Part 1: Climate, Environment, and Conservation: Regulating the Ogallala paradox and ambiguity in Western Kansas -- Contested understandings of sustainability and climate issues in Southern Costa Rica -- Climate variability in West Africa: a case study in vulnerability and adpatation on the Northern Central Plateau, Burkina Faso -- Contested affluence: cultural politics of Pashmina wealth and wildlife conservation in Ladakh -- Part II: Negotiating the Social and the Economic in Exchange Relations: Maximizing social proximity in market relations: the networks of Nigerian immigrant business owners in New York City - The Hau of the theft: reciprocity, reputation and the Koh-i-Noor diamond -- The space between community and self-interest: conflict and the experience of exchange in heroin markets -- Suburban drug dealing: a case study in ambivalent economics -- Part III: Adaptations to Socioeconomic conditions: Performing anonymity: investors, brokers, and the malleability of material identity information in financial markets -- The creation of a local innovation ecosystem in Japan for nurturing global entrepreneurs -- Exploring the interactions: plot-level analysis of Maragoli women farmers' crop control and yields in Western Kenya -- The alternative economics of alternative healing: faith-based therapies in Brazil's religious marketplace.