Environmental security: approaches and issues

This book brings together contributions from a range of disciplines to present a critical and comprehensive overview of the research and debate linking environmental factors to security. It provides a framework for representing and understanding key areas of intellectual convergence and disagreement, clarifying achievements of the research as well as identifying its weaknesses and gaps.

Environmental security studies : an introduction / Rita Floyd and Richard A. Matthew -- Analyst, theory and security : a new framework for understanding environmental security studies / Rita Floyd -- The evolution of qualitative environment-conflict research : moving towards consensus / Tom Deligiannis -- Environmental security and the resource curse / Indra de Soysa -- A political ecology of environmental security / Michael Watts -- From conflict to cooperation? : environmental cooperation as a tool for peace-building / Achim Maas and Alexander Carius with Anja Wittich -- Environmental dimensions of human security / Simon Dalby -- Ecological security : a conceptual framework / Dennis C. Pirages -- Gender and environmental security / Nicole Detraz -- Understanding water security / Patrick MacQuarrie & Aaron T. Wolf -- Conservation, science and peace-building in southeastern Europe / Saleem H. Ali and Mary C. Watzin -- Population and national security / Jennifer Sciubba, Carolyn Lamere and Geoffrey D. Dabelko -- Environmental security and sustainable development / Bishnu Raj Upreti -- Ensuring food security : meeting challenges from malnutrition, food safety and global environmenta…