Full Description
This book offers a comprehensive survey of the distinctive theoretical approaches, fundamental issues and key actors that are central to the contemporary field of environmental security studies.
Through a series of chapters written by leading experts, this volume provides readers with an overview of environmental security studies, an arena of considerable policy and research attention that has evolved quickly over the past several decades. The relationships linking climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution to different ways of thinking about, and optimizing, security are broadly relevant, complex and intensifying. Contributors to this volume provide authoritative analyses of competing and complementary theoretical approaches; key issues including food water and energy; and the actions and aspirations of multilateral, national and sub-national actors.
This book has been carefully designed to benefit anyone interested in environmental and climate security. It is especially valuable as required reading for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Beyond that it serves as a reliable resource for established researchers in the field, as well as advocates, policymakers, security professionals, climate change and other environmentalists, and members of the public.
Contents
Introduction 1. Theoretical Framework 2. Environmental Scarcity and Conflict 3. Environmental Security and 'Resource Wars' 4. A Political Ecology of Environmental Security in the Anthropocene 5. Environmental Peace Building 6. The Intersection Between Human Security and Climate Change - When Environmental Threats Become 'Fake News' 7. Military Damage in War and Adaptation 8. Gender and Environmental Security 9. The Water-Security Nexus Between Conflict and Cooperation 10. Climate Security 11. Environmental Security and Sustainable Development 12. Conflict, Climate and Crisis: Rethinking Food Security in a Fragile World 13. Energy Security: Developments, Challenges and Opportunities 14. Climate Security and International Organizations 15. Environmental and Climate Security in Key States 16. Non-State Actors and Environmental Security
