Climate Security

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Ashok Swain has written a packed and seminal book on climate security, calling for a bold, new security architecture to tackle the climate crisis. Climate Security covers multiple ways in which climate change affects national and human security, including military readiness and resilience, water availability, and migration. -- Erika Weinthal, PhD Climate Security is a powerful synthesis from a pioneer in the field. Swain makes the case for a new paradigm rooted in sustainability, social justice, and cooperation. His work points toward transformations that the planet and its people demand. -- Ken Conca Ashok Swain has produced a remarkably timely, clear-headed, and straight-talking book that explains climate security as it should: not as an obscure intellectual concept, but as a reality that is already defining the existential challenges of our times, and that must now define the real actions that we need to take. -- Adil Najam When we achieve the first quarter of the 21st century, the book is a wake-up call to humanity: either we collectively act now or we may lose "our ability to survive as societies". The author uses his unique sensibility from years fighting for civil rights in difficult contexts to understand what insecurity is, to demonstrate the severity of the current environmental crisis, and to explore possible solutions. In a time of overlapping and self-reinforcing risks, this is a fundamental book to both scholars and practitioners. -- Juliano Cortinhas