This book provides a critical assessment of the theories and practice of environmental security in the context of the Anthropocene.

Judith Nora Hardt is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of the Basque Country, Spain.

1. Introduction: The new socio-ecological world of our making

2. Genealogy, research phases and debates of the concept of environmental security

3. Critical Environmental Security Studies (CESS): a framework for analysis

Part II: Environmental security: analysis of the practical implementation

4. Overview of environmental security implementation in the system of global environmental governance

5. The case of the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) and its political implementation of the concept of environmental security

6. Critical analysis of the ENVSEC conception of environmental security in the Critical Environmental Security Study framework (CESS)

7. Conclusions. Environmental Security in the Anthropocene