Human and Environmental Security

Felix Dodds is Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, based in San Sebastian, author of How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings and co-editor of the bestselling Earth Summit 2002. Tim Pippard is Content Editor for Jane's Sentinel Security Assessments at Jane's Information Group, based in London.

• Part I: Peace and Security * 'A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility' - The Report of the High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change * The Peacebuilding Commission: Linking Security and Development * Human Security and the War on Terror * Achieving Nuclear Non-proliferation: A New Zealand Perspective * Women, War and Peace: Mobilizing for Security and Justice in the 21st Century * Part II: Sustainable Human Development * Globalization, Poverty and Security * Trade and Security in an Interconnected World * Climate Change: Emerging Insecurities * Migration, Development and Security * Securing a Healthier World * Biodiversity and Security * Food Security * Water Security: What Role for International Water Law? * Urban Safety: A Collective Challenge for Sustainable Human Settlements Development * Part III: Global Governance * America as Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power? * The Emergence and Role of Regional Governance * Human and Environmental Rights: The Need for Corporate Accountability * Reforming Environmental Governance * Democracy in an Uncertain World

'Through the lens of security, the authors explore a wide range of threats and opportunities to attaining a sustainable future. Implicitly they ask: What kind of world do we want and how do we achieve it? One answer lies in the opportunity to put the politics of polarization aside and be the architects of a global participatory process. Surely that is a vision for which to strive' Elizabeth Dowdeswell, President, Nuclear Waste Management Organization and former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme'A highly significant and relevant publication. The authors describe in admirable clarity a daunting array of contemporary global challenges and offer realistic and achievable responses. Both the public and policy makers alike are left in no doubt as to the urgency of concerted international action to address threats that affect us all' Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy'The contributors make a powerful case for a more coordinated approach to addressing both the proximate and root causes of international conflict and security. The book will be very useful for all academic audiences.' C.W. Herrick, Muhlenberg College, in Choice'I might have deemed this book a mainstream, United Nations-focused publication on traditional notions of security, sustainable development, and global governance, had I not randomly opened to Chapter 6 and started to read....Jan Pronk's chapter, 'Globalization, Poverty, and Security,' ...evolves into one of the most insightful critiques [on the MDGs] that I have read... Now inspired to read Human and Environmental Security from cover to cover, I was rewarded with many thought-provoking insights. The book provides provides a good overview of the context for security in the 21st century.' Karen O'Brien, Environmental Change and Security Program Report