RUSI Journal, Jun 2013, Vol. 158, No. 3 By Simon Dalby

Climate change has added new impetus and urgency to the long-running discussion of environmental security, resulting in an emphasis at the overall transformation of planetary systems. Listed here, Simon Dalby argues that this requires consideration of 3 themes especially: urban vulnerabilities to extreme events; the unforeseen social and political consequences of adaptation and mitigation efforts; and the probabilities of geo-engineering. Furthermore, given the increasingly artificial circumstances that the worldwide economy is creating, security planners should now specialize in the results of further expansion of the carbon-fuelled global economy, instead of on concerns about political instabilities within the rural peripheries as a result of resource conflicts.

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