Table Of Contents:

• VOLUME ONE: HISTORICAL CONTEXT: EARLY WRITINGS ON ENVIRONMENT AND SECURITY
• Introduction
• Redefining National Security
• The War over Water
• Resource Competition and Human Aggression, Part I: A Review of Primitive War
• Long-term Biological Consequences of Nuclear War
• Human Carrying Capacity, Extinctions, and Nature Reserves
• Environmental Warfare and Ecocide
• The Tragedy of the Commons
• Security and the Environment: A Preliminary Exploration
• Extracts from An Essay on the Principle of Population
• Environment and Security
• International Organizations for Environmental Security
• Lebensraum: Paradoxically, Population Growth May Eventually End Wars
• Arctic Environmental Issues: Prospects for International Cooperation
• Redefining Security
• The Environmental Component of Comprehensive Security
• Extract from Our Common Future: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development
• VOLUME TWO: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE CONFLICT CYCLE
• Introduction
• Post-Conflict Peace Building and Natural Resources
• Greed and Grievance in Civil War
• From Conflict to Peacebuilding: UNEP’s Role in Environmental Assessment and Recovery
• Why Environmental Transformation Causes Violence: A Synthesis
• Security, Modernity, Ecology: The Dilemmas of Post-Cold War Security Discourse
• The Case against Linking Environmental Degradation and National Security
• Ecological Collapse of Past Civilizations
• Armed Conflict and the Environment: A Critique of the Literature
• Warfare in Biodiversity Hotspots
• On the Threshold: Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict
• The Ingenuity Gap: Can Poor Countries Adapt to Resource Scarcity?
• Population Growth, Environmental Degradation, and State Sponsored Violence: The Case of Kenya, 1991–93
• The Defense Department Declassifies the Earth-Slowly
• Cargo Cult Science, Armchair Empiricism and the Idea of Violent Conflict
• The Political Ecology of War: Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts
• Is the Environment a National Security Issue?
• Redefining Security
• Globalised Images of Environmental Security in Africa
• Minerals, Forests, and Violent Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• A Southern African Perspective on Transboundary Water Resource Management
• Civil War in Sudan: The Impact of Ecological Degradation
• From Conflict to Peacebuilding: The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment
• Conflict, and Cooperation
• From Environmental Peacekeeping to Environmental Peacemaking
• VOLUME THREE: RETHINKING SECURITY IN RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
• Introduction
• Environmental Peacemaking: Ending Conflict between India and Pakistan on the Siachen Glacier through the Creation of a Transboundary Peace Park
• Global Environmental Change and Human Security: An Introduction
• Peace through Parks: The Environment on the Peace Research Agenda
• Ecoregions, State Sovereignty and Conflict
• Peace in the Anthropocene
• Bringing Nature Back In: Geopolitical Theory from the Greeks to the Global Era
• Conflict and Cooperation: Making the Case for Environmental Pathways to Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes Region
• The Role of Environmental Degradation in Population Displacement
• Protected Areas and the Security Community
• Ecological Security and the Need to Reconceptualize Sovereignty
• The Human Dimensions of Environmental Insecurity: Some Insights from South Asia
• Are We Missing the Point? Global Environmental Change as an Issue of Human Security
• Conflicts of Global Ecology: Environmental Activism in a Period of Global Reach
• The Environmental Security Debate and Its Significance for Climate Change
• VOLUME FOUR: THE SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
• Introduction
• Climate Change, Human Well-Being and Insecurity
• Climate Change Discourse in Peacebuilding
• Does Climate Change Drive Land-Use Conflicts in the Sahel?
• Could Climate Change Precipitate Peace?
• Climate Change, Exponential Curves, Water Resources, and Unprecedented Threats to Humanity
• Nuclear Famine
• Climate Change and the Global Financial Crisis: A Case of Double Exposure
• Integrating Climate Change into Peacebuilding
• ?Climate Change and Peacebuilding in the Sahel
• Don’t Blame the Weather! Climate-Related Natural Disasters and Civil Conflict
• A Climate of Conflict: The Links between Climate Change, Peace and War
• Climate Wars? Assessing the Claim that Drought Breeds Conflict
• Climate Change and Its Possible Security Implications: Report of the Secretary-General
• Global Climate Change, War, and Population Decline in Recent Human History
• Beyond Disasters: Creating Opportunities for Peace
• Climate Change and Inner Peace