Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Environment from An Evaded Periphery to A Focused Primacy in World Politics Environmental Security: A Theoretical Quest Politics of Environmental Security and Problems of Widening: A Critique Environmental Scarcity of Resources Social Effects, Adaptative Failure and Ingenuity Gap Violent Environmental Conflict Environmental Security not An Appendage to Geo-Political World Order of The United States: A Critique Global Climate Change: Challenges to Sovereign State System and Its Legitimacy Rediscovering New Planetary and Transcendental Vision: Foundation Of Environmental Security Conclusion Bibliography Index.