How do we understand environmental issues as contributing to risk or security? This question is important because it draws our attention to ways in which environmental themes are selectively distinguished from or connected to human activity. My proposed book project engages with the enduring question of how humans interpret their place in the world with a particular focus on ways in which environmental features are brought into discussions, attributed with agency, or portrayed to support interests. The author provides an analytical approach that assesses environmental risk and threat, which is important if we want to decide, for example, how science is used to make political arguments, how environmental features are viewed as threat multipliers from a military perspective, and how consumers are encouraged to make choices. The author makes connections and critiques that will offer insightful perspectives on current events as well as on the way our society understands and conceptualizes environmental risk, security, and stability. Making connections and critiques that will offer insightful perspectives on current events, the book illuminates the way our society understands and conceptualizes environmental risk, security, and stability.