Security and Environmental Change

Acknowledgments vii

Abbreviations viii

Introduction: Change, Ecology, and Security 1

1 Environmental Fears: From Th omas Malthus to Ecological “Collapse” 13

2 Securing Precisely What? Global, Environmental, and Human Security 36

3 Environmental History: Conquest, Colonization, Famines, and El Niño 56

4 Global Change and Earth-System Science 78

5 Glurbanization and Vulnerability in the Anthropocene 105

6 Geopolitics and Ecological Security 129

Conclusion: Anthropocene Security 159

References 173

Index 193