Since 2004, Dodds has been actively working on the emerging agenda of human and environmental security. His book, "Human and Environmental Security: An Agenda for Change", produced with Tim Pippard of Jane's Information Group, outlines the critical issues of this new agenda. Dodds argues that, due to the failure of donor governments to fund the agendas stemming from summits at Rio and Johannesburg, many environmental issues are now becoming security dilemmas.