This book argues that we should approach the relationship between climate change and security through the lens of ecosystem resilience.

Matt McDonald is Reader in International Relations in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of Security, the Environment and Emancipation (2012) and co-author (with Anthony Burke and Katrina Lee-Koo) of Ethics and Global Security (2014).

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.