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"We now find ourselves in a new geological age: the Anthropocene. The climate is changing and species are disappearing at a rate not seen since Earth's major extinctions. The rapid, lager-scale changes caused by fossil-fuel powered globalization increasingly threaten societies in new, unforeseen ways. But most security policies continue to be built on notions that look backward to a time when geopolitical threats derived mainly from the rivalries of states with fixed boundaries. Instead, Anthropocene Geopolitics shows that security policy must look forward to quickly shape a sustainable world no longer dependent on fossil fuels.

A future of long-term peace and geopolitical security depends on keeping the earth in conditions roughly similar to those we have known throughout history. Minimizing disruptions that would further put civilizations at risk of extinction urgently requires policies that reflect new Anthropocene "planetary boundaries". (Book Cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

1. Geopolitics Revisited

2. Scaling up the Human Niche

3. Planetary Boundaries

4. Territory, Security, Mobility

5. Bordering Sustainability

6. Securing the Global Economy

7. Environmental Insecurity

8. Geopolitics and Globalization

9. Anthropocene Discourse

10. Political Geoecology

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