Climate change and security
Towards ecological security
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matt Mcdonald (0000-0001-6636-2731, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 153-180 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-9719 • E-ISSN: 1752-9727 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1752971918000039 |
| OpenAlex | W2810145910 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 60 |
| References cited | 70 |
Climate change is increasingly characterized as a security issue. Yet we see nothing approaching consensus about the nature of the climate change–security relationship. Indeed existing depictions in policy statements and academic debate illustrate radically different conceptions of the nature of the threat posed, to whom and what constitute appropriate policy responses. These different climate security discourses encourage practices as varied as national adaptation and globally oriented mitigation action. Given the increasing prominence of climate security representations and the different implications of these discourses, it is important to consider whether we can identify progressive discourses of climate security: approaches to this relationship underpinned by defensible ethical assumptions and encouraging effective responses to climate change. Here I make a case for an ecological security discourse. Such a discourse orients towards ecosystem resilience and the rights and needs of the most vulnerable across space (populations of developing worlds), time (future generations), and species (other living beings). This paper points to the limits of existing accounts of climate security before outlining the contours of an ‘ecological security discourse’ regarding climate change. It concludes by reflecting on the challenges and opportunities for such discourse in genuinely informing how political communities approach the climate change–security relationship
Climate change · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Food security · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Ecology
Making a World of Climate Insecurity
Ecosystems and Ordering
Tracking Climate Securitization
Polar Stars
A Solarpunk Manifesto
Rethinking crisis narratives
Unpacking the Food Security Crisis in the Ecologically Fragile and Conflict-Ridden Lake Chad Basin
Towards a combined human-natural system approach in the Northern Red Sea Region
The Climatization of Global Politics
Reinterpreting disasters and urban resilience in the Anthropocene
Small Island Developing States and climate securitisation in international politics
Discourses of Resilience in the Climate Security Debate
Crime, Security, and Illegal Wildlife Trade
Climate security in the European Union’s foreign policy
Multiple Anthropocenes
From a business risk to full-scale crisis
Knowledge production at the environment-security nexus
Climatizing the UN Security Council
Short of disarmament
Considerations for disaster response as defence diplomacy
Towards a greener BRI? Critical IPE, the Belt and Road Initiative, and renewable energy transitions
Situating the Asia Pacific in the age of the Anthropocene
The national security implications of solar geoengineering
Australian IR scholarship on the environment
Same same but different
Global environmental change I
The dark side of environmental peacebuilding
Människans sociala relationer med djur
The slow violence of climate security
Foregrounding politics
Environmental security as a source of non-state legitimacy
The United Nations Security Council at the Forefront of (Climate) Change? Confusion, Stalemate, Ignorance
Global Responses to Climate Security
Considering stratospheric aerosol injections beyond an environmental frame
Reframing an Established Order? An Analysis of the Defense Departments’ Climate Change Strategies of EU and Nato Member States
International Politics in the Age of Existential Threats
On (In-)Secure Grounds
A co-designed heuristic guide for investigating the peace-sustainability nexus in the context of global change
A void in Central Asia research
The Anthropocene rupture in international relations
Climate change in the Asia-Pacific security architecture – the case of Asean
Dugong v. Rumsfeld
The sustainable security index
Beyond Climate Security
Can Status Competition Save the World? Grafting, Green Energy, and the Climate Crisis
After the fires? Climate change and security in Australia
Films at the fault line of 'deep' and 'bright' greens in the environmental movement
Children as a new climate precariat
Envisioning ecological security through local direct action
Barking up the tree wrongly? How national security strategies frame climate and other environmental change as security issues
Reckoning climate apartheid
Crisis, deliberation, and Extinction Rebellion
Jellyfish encounters
Capturing the environment, security, and development nexus
Transnational Encounters with the Non-Human Animal as a Refugee
Intersecting security, equity, and sustainability for transformation in the Anthropocene
Climate security reversed
The eternal return
Can the liberal international order survive the Anthropocene? Three propositions for converging peace and survival
Conceptualising climate-riskification for analysing climate security
Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Theory of World Security
Climate Change, Justice and Future Generations
Climate Ethics
Critique of Security
Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change
Environment, Scarcity, and Violence
Environmental Security
Security, the Environment and Emancipation
Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict
Critique of Security
Security in the Anthropocene
The Securitisation of Climate Change
Security
Water, Drought, Climate Change, and Conflict in Syria
Conflict and cooperation along international waterways
Green Political Thought
An Ethics of Global Security
Nonanthropocentric climate ethics
Security in Climate Change Discourse
Political Challenges of the Climate-Changed Society
The international politics of geoengineering
Critical Approaches to Security in Europe
Securitization of media reporting on climate change? A cross-national analysis in nine countries
Resilience and (in)security
Who Cares about the Weather
Are we missing the point? Global environmental change as an issue of human security
Environmental security and climate change
Security and emancipation
Destabilizing the environment—conflict thesis
Reconstructing desecuritisation
Environmentalism and Political Theory
Water and Conflict
On the Threshold
Environment and Security
Posthuman International Relations
Implications of climate change for the UN Security Council
Writing security
Securitization and the Construction of Security
Security in the anthropocene
The future of critical security studies
Only human? A worldly approach to security
Complexity, ecologism, and posthuman politics
Planet Politics
The Anthropocene
Climate change, human security and violent conflict
Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited
Discourses of climate security
Geoengineering
Global climate security governance
What's at Stake in Securitising Climate Change? Towards a Differentiated Approach
Geologic Life
Geo-Politics and the Disaster of the Anthropocene
Redefining Security
From Defense to Resilience
| Unique citing works | 60 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 60 |