ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the fields of communication studies and security studies can inform each other productively in the intersecting domains of ecology, environment, energy, and climate communication. The chapter first develops a theoretical framework using concepts of communication, articulation, security, and securitization. Then, five areas of thematic connection are reviewed: (1) rhetoric, public argument, and narrative; (2) ecological discourses and ecological politics; (3) risk, precaution, regulation, uncertainty, and trust; (4) ecological security and conflict across sectors and levels of analysis; and (5) the scope and ethics of inclusion for notions of security, justice, and emancipation across ecological, social, interspecies, and intergenerational contexts. The chapter then considers nuclear energy as a brief case study to illustrate further the complex relationships among ecology, environment, energy, climate, and security.
