Part I: Introduction -- 1. Environmental Securitisation in India and China: An Overview -- Part I: Environment and International Relations Theory -- 2. Normative and Non-normative Securitisation of Climate Change: An Analysis of India -- 3. Problematic of Ecological Routines: Securitisation and Beyond -- 4. Role of Epistemic Communities in Shaping India's Environmental Policies: A Constructivist Perspective -- 5. Understanding Environment and IR Theory from Non-Western International Relations Theory: State-Society Interface -- Part III: Trends in Climate Securitisation -- 6. Identity Politics and Chinese Climate Securitisation -- 7. Environmental policy in China and its impact on China's environmental interaction with border countries -- 8. Global South and the Resistance to Pan-Securitisation of Environmental Issues: A Case Study of India and China -- Part IV: State, Society and Environmental Policy in India and China -- 9. Climate Securitisation in China and India: A Human Security Perspective -- 10. Tagged: The Role of social media in Influencing Environmental Security in China and India -- 11. From Policy to Practice: China's NEV Initiatives and the Evolution of Ecological Civilization -- 12. India’s Experiment with Electric Vehicles: Promise and Ambiguity in the Context of Environmental Security.

This book examines how emerging environmental challenges are situated within existing International Relations (IR) theoretical understandings of ‘security’. As governments in the Global South undertake policy interventions to mitigate the impact of increasing climatic changes and yearn to achieve human-nature harmony, one can observe similar patterns of responses chiefly due to the ecology-economy dichotomy in these states and their societies. In this context, it brings to the readers various aspects of the theory and practice of state interventions in the form of environmental securitization in the Global South majorly under four themes (encompassing theory and policy processes). Chapters in this volume explicate connections between the environment and International Relations Theory, securitization in developing countries, state society and the environment in India and China and lastly, public participation and environmental policymaking. It presents a comprehensive and coherent overview of the politics of securitization in India and China, two prominent economies in the Global South. Faculty and researchers who work on non-western International Relations theory and non-traditional security threats, policy practitioners and experts in environmental policymaking, and students of IR and Comparative Politics, chiefly, will benefit from this book. Dr Joe Thomas Karackattu is Associate Professor with the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He was “CISLI Fellow” (2017-19) at the New School, New York and “Fox Fellow” (2008-09) at Yale University. Dr Justin Joseph currently works as Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Languages (SSL), Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) University, Chennai Campus, India. Dr Ramnath Reghunadhan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences in School of Social Sciences and Languages (SSL), Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) University, Vellore Campus, India.