Since the end of the Cold War, environmental matters -- especially
the international implications of environmental degradation -- have
figured prominently in debates about rethinking security. But do
the assumptions underlying such discussions hold up under close
scrutiny? In this first treatment of environmental security from a
truly critical perspective, Simon Dalby shows how attempts to
explain contemporary insecurity falter over unexamined notions of
both environment and security.
Adding environmental history, aboriginal perspectives, and
geopolitics to the analysis explicitly suggests that the growing
disruptions caused by a carbon-fueled and expanding modernity are
at the root of contemporary difficulties. Environmental Security
argues that rethinking security means revisiting the question of
how we conceive identities as endangered and how we perceive
threats to these identities. The book clearly demonstrates that the
conceptual basis for critical security studies requires an extended
engagement with political theory and with the assumptions of the
modern subject as progressive political agent. Viewed thus on a
global scale, the environmental security discourse raises
profoundly troubling political questions as to who we are and what
kind of world we are collectively making in our efforts to be
secure.
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