'… McDonald's book is essential reading for any scholar wishing to handle what is at stake in the climate security debate. Additionally, graduate students would be wise to use it as a model of undertaking sustained discourse analysis that goes beyond critique.' Paul Beaumont, International Studies
Introduction; 1. The construction of security; 2. Climate security discourses; 3. Ecological security: a definition; 4. Means and ends of ecological security; 5. Towards Ecological Security?; Conclusion.