Economic development, population growth and poor resource management have combined to alter the planet's natural environment in dramatic and alarming ways. The field of environmental security has matured in response to improved scientific understanding of the causes and trends of global environmental change. Research conducted in the past two decades has grappled with this core set of questions in a variety of ways, generating findings and hypotheses that have stimulated considerable intellectual and policy activity.

Environmental Security Studies: An Introduction Chapter 1. Analyst, Theory and Security: A New Framework for Understanding Environmental Security Studies Chapter 2. The Evolution of qualitative Environment-Conflict Research: Moving Towards Consensus Chapter 3. Environmental Security and the Resource Curse Chapter 4. A Political Ecology of Environmental Security Chapter 5. From Conflict to Cooperation? Environmental Cooperation as a Tool for Peace-building Chapter 6. Environmental Dimensions of Human Security Chapter 7. Ecological Security: A Conceptual Framework Chapter 8. Gender and Environmental Security Chapter 9. Understanding Water Security Chapter 10. Conservation, Science and Peace-building in South-eastern Europe Chapter 11. Population and National Security Chapter 12. Environmental Security and Sustainable Development Chapter 13. Ensuring Food Security: Meeting Challenges from Malnutrition, Food Safety and Global Environmental Change Chapter 14. Challenging Inequality and Injustice: A Critical Approach to Energy Security Chapter 15. Climate Change and Security Chapter 16. Whither Environmental Security Studies? An Afterword