Environmental Security: An Introduction

This textbook offers a student-friendly survey of the global politics of the environment through the prism of security studies.

This book is divided into three thematic sections. The first part sets out the key theoretical and practical arguments for and against bringing together environmental and security issues. The second part examines why environmental issues have been framed by some as ‘national security‘ concerns in the context of the effects of overpopulation, resource depletion, clim...