Natural Resources and Social Conflict Towards Critical Environmental Security

This volume brings together international scholars reflecting on the theory and practice of international security, human security, natural resources and environmental change. It contributes by 'centring the margins' and privileging alternative conceptions and understandings of environmental (in)security.

Introduction: Towards Critical Environmental Security; M.Schnurr & L.Swatuk What Are We Really Looking For? From Eco-violence to Environmental Injustice; P.Stoett Climatic Security and the Tipping Point Conception of the Earth System; C.Russill Insecurities of Non-Dominance: Re-Theorizing Human Security and Environmental Change in Developed States; W.Greaves Water and Security in Africa: State-Centric Narratives, Human Insecurities; L.Swatuk Avoiding the Resource Curse in Ghana: Assessing the Options; P.Arthur Sexual Violence, Coltan and the Democratic Republic of Congo; S.Whitman 'The Elephant in the Room?' Peak Oil on the Security Agenda; S.Mulligan Dirty Security? Tar Sands, Energy Security and Environmental Violence; P.Le Billon & A.Carter Loud Bangs and Quiet Canadians: An analysis of oil patch sabotage in British Columbia, Canada; C.Arsenault Bodies on the Line: The In/Security of Everyday Life in Aamjiwnaang; S.Wiebe Afterward: Ecoviolence, Security, Geopolitics; S.Dalby

CHRIS ARSENAULT Journalist, Al Jazeera English PETER ARTHUR Associate Professor of Political Science and International Development Studies, Dalhousie University, Canada ANGELA CARTER Assistant Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada SIMON DALBY Professor of Geography, Environmental Studies and Political Economy, Carleton University, Canada WILFRID GREAVES PhD candidate, Munk School of Global Affairs and the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada PHILIPPE LE BILLON Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia, Canada SHANE MULLIGAN Consultant with renewable energy co-operatives, Canada CHRIS RUSSILL Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada PETER STOETT Professor of Global Politics, Department of Political Science, Concordia University, Canada SHELLY WHITMAN Deputy Director, Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University, Canada SARAH WIEBE PhD candidate in Canadian Politics and Public Policy, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada