Ecological disruption is reshaping security.
Changes across Earth systems — from biosphere decline and pollution to antimicrobial resistance and ecological crime — are driving new forms of instability that conventional security frameworks were not designed to address. Ecological security is the field built to close that gap.
Featured Work
Understanding Polycrisis
Global Sustainability · Cambridge University Press · 2025
Five Urgent Questions on Ecological Security
SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security · April 2023
Deny, Delay, Downplay
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists · February 2026
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What ecological security is and why it demands a different kind of analysis.
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Reports, essays, testimony, and talks from two decades of work.
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Speaking, advisory, and analysis for organizations navigating systemic risk.
Rod Schoonover is a scientist, former senior U.S. intelligence official, and one of the leading voices on the security implications of ecological disruption. He is Founder & CEO of Ecological Futures Group, an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and an Associate Senior Fellow at SIPRI.
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Occasional dispatches on ecological security, the polycrisis, and emerging signals from Earth systems — directly from Rod Schoonover and Ecological Futures Group.
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