Dodds' has produced a trilogy of books known as the Vienna Cafe Trilogy which covers the history of sustainable development at the global level. The third book in the series is "Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals" (2017) he wrote with Ambassador Donoghue and Jimena Leiva Roesch the other two are the 2014 book "From Rio+20 to the New Development Agenda" written with Jorge Laguna Celis and Liz Thompson and the 2012 book "Only One Earth – The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development" written with Michael Strauss and Maurice Strong. The books look at the Rio+20 process and outcomes and the last forty years and the challenges for the future. His previous books include the "Water, Food, Energy and Climate Nexus" edited with Jamie Bartram which takes up the themes of three of his other books on human and environmental security. These are "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity" edited with Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf UN Convention on Biological Diversity Executive Secretary this is a companion book to "Climate Change and Energy Insecurity" edited volume with Andrew Higham and Richard Sherman and "Human and Environmental Security: An Agenda for Change" they argue that the new paradigm facing the world is the interface between environmental, human, economic security considerations. Dodds argues that this is due to the failure of developed countries to deliver on promises made during the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and the 2002 World Summit in Johannesburg.