From a business risk to full-scale crisis
The understanding of ‘climate threat’ in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Reports
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12717288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Salla Kaarina Pasula (0000-0003-1268-3948, University of Lapland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Globalizations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-7731 • E-ISSN: 1474-774X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14747731.2024.2327164 |
| OpenAlex | W4392723746 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 46 |
This article suggests that the business sector’s engagement in climate governance is not only expanding but also providing them with an increasingly influential role in determining how climate risks are framed and addressed. Using the methodological tools provided by the poststructuralist hegemony and discourse theory, the article analyses how the World Economic Forum has framed climate change as a security issue through its Global Risks Reports and what forms of authority and practice are promoted by this understanding
Business · Climate change · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Scale (ratio · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Global Energy Security and Policy · Transboundary Water Resource Management
Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method
From ‘Securitization’ of Climate Change to ’Climatization‘ of the Security Field
The Securitisation of Climate Change and the Governmentalisation of Security
Ecological Security
The Securitisation of Climate Change
Securitizing Global Warming
Security
Securitization Theory. How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve
The Politics of Possibility
Aiding or undermining? The military as an emergent actor in global climate governance
Global Responses to Climate Security
Beyond the intergovernmental regime
Non‐ and sub‐state climate action after Paris
Climate change and security
Climate Change and Environmental Security
How Powerful are Transnational Elite Clubs? The Social Myth of the World Economic Forum
Climate terror
Environmental security and climate change
Securitisation and ‘Riskification’
On the Threshold
How does war become a legitimate undertaking? Re-engaging the post-structuralist foundation of securitization theory
Constructing Authority Alternatives on the Periphery
Transnational Actors and Transnational Governance in Global Environmental Politics
Climate terror
Discretionary Governance
Security in the anthropocene
Incantatory’ governance
Planet Politics
Discourses of climate security
Global climate security governance
What's at Stake in Securitising Climate Change? Towards a Differentiated Approach
Non-state actors in global climate governance
The Paris Agreement and the new logic of international climate politics
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |