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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book explores how the global ecological crisis profoundly challenges conventional meanings of environmental security and raises important questions about how states and other institutions now face the future.
Trade Review‘This extraordinarily comprehensive book provides an ontological and political reworking of one of the master concepts in International Relations – security – to help us grasp the multiple dangers and anxieties associated with the unsustainable trajectory of global capitalist societies in the Anthropocene. Simultaneously critical and visionary, this unique account pushes us to see environmental security as less about environmental and social protection and more about world making.’ -- Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, Australia
‘Simon Dalby has long been a thorn in the side of business-as-usual approaches to ecology, security, and planetary futures. In Rethinking Environmental Security
, he demonstrates that existing practices cannot create security—not for the planet, not for its people, and not for a political-economic system premised on climate stability and ever-expanding fossil fuel use. Dalby shows that the firepower destabilizing the international system is not military might, but the extractivist logic of the world’s energy economy. Climate stationarity is dead—and promises to take with it much of the thinking about security, territoriality and risk that brought us to this point. Dalby reminds us that nothing will change until our understanding of security wakes up to the politics of the Anthropocene.’ -- Ken Conca, American University, US
‘Simon Dalby has been at the forefront of efforts to rethink “security”, “environmental security” and the discipline of International Relations for almost three decades. Rethinking Environmental Security
is a lucid and important addition to this body of work, framed around the claim that, in a world of both war and climate change, humanity needs to develop ways of controlling firepower in all its forms.’ -- Jan Selby, University of Sheffield, UK
Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction to Rethinking Environmental Security 1. Realism, firepower and insecurity 2. Sustainable development/environmental insecurity 3. Geostory: deep time and history 4. The geopolitics of colonizing nature 5. Global security/environmental conflict 6. Catastrophic and existential risks 7. Whole earth security: an engineered world 8. Environmental peacebuilding Conclusion References Index
