Threats or Vulnerabilities? Assessing the Link between Climate Change and Security

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ID12754591
AutoresNicole Detraz (0000-0002-5075-8931, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume11
Fascículo3
Páginas104-120
Data de publicação2011-07-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobal Environmental Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1526-3800 • E-ISSN: 1536-0091
EditoraThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/glep_a_00071
OpenAlexW2052435729
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas39

This article analyzes how climate change has been strategically linked to security issues in recent decades by a variety of actors. I begin by elaborating on two general discourses on the relationship between environment and security, which I call environmental conflict and environmental security. Using discourse analysis, I examine the particular ways that security and climate change have been linked by scholars, policymakers and the media. I then explore some of the potential implications that discussing climate change through each of these security discourses have for policy outcomes within the climate regime. I conclude that the environmental security discourse is the most useful for stressing vulnerabilities and the human security concerns linked to climate change

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