Environmental Security: Approaches, Issues and Actors

This book offers a comprehensive survey of the distinctive theoretical approaches, fundamental issues and key actors that are central to the contemporary field of environmental security studies.

Rita Floyd is Professor of International Security and Ethics at the University of Birmingham, UK and co-editor in chief of International Affairs. She has published widely on securitization theory, security theory, environmental and climate security, including four monographs. Most recently Teaching Security Studies, 2025.

Richard A. Matthew is a Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California at Irvine. He directs UCI’s Alec Glasser Center for the Power of Music and Social Change, the Climate and Urban Sustainability Program, and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation’s Climate Change and Security Program. His research examines links among climate change, conflict, public health and migration, and using music to mobilize youth around climate change, peacebuilding and sustainable urban redevelopment. He has worked extensively in Africa and South Asia.