Includes index.

Contents: Analyst, theory and security: a new framework for understanding environmental security studies -- The evolution of qualitative environment-conflict research: moving towards consensus -- Environmental security and the resource curse -- A political ecology of environmental security -- From conflict to cooperation? Environmental cooperation as a tool for peace-building -- Environmental dimensions of human security -- Ecological security: a conceptual framework -- Gender and environmental security -- Understanding water security -- Conservation, science and peace-building in southeastern Europe -- Population and national security -- Environmental security and sustainable development -- Ensuring food security: meeting challenges from malnutrition, food safety, and global environmental change -- Climate change and security -- Whither environmental security studies? An afterword.