Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse
The Case of the Lake Chad Basin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4904085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabrielle Daoust (0000-0002-6668-5407, St. Francis Xavier University, corresponding author), Jennifer Selby (0000-0002-7574-9660, University of Sheffield), Jan Selby (University of Sheffield) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1285-1322 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2021.2014821 |
| OpenAlex | W4205476650 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 87 |
Policy discourse on the conflict and security implications of climate change has repeatedly found it to be overstated, misleading, and out of line with the balance of scientific evidence. However, the reasons for this recurring science-policy divide have not yet been systematically investigated. To explore this issue, we examine the case of Lake Chad, which over the last decade has become a poster child for climate conflict. We seek to understand and explain how this climate security narrative has gained such traction. Drawing on interviews and documentary analysis we examine the key practices, interests and hierarchies underpinning the narrative’s rise and reproduction, and show that it is essentially a political construct, reflecting a combination of questionable epistemic manoeuvres and geopolitical, economic and climate mitigation agendas. Our findings suggest the need for change, and increased caution, in how the climate security community engages with scientific evidence
Climate change · Geopolitics · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Underpinning · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management
Rethinking the link between climate and violent conflict over water
Where to draw the line? Climate change-conflict-migration-terrorism causal relations and a contested politics of implication
International/inter-carbonic relations
Recomposing the climate-security nexus
“The Danger of a Single Story”
Drought impacts on armed conflict primarily explained by pre-existing conflict risk
Climate, Women, and Conflict
Contention, cooperation, and context
Governance for Earth system tipping points – A research agenda
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin
Knowledge production at the environment-security nexus
Climate change and Australia’s national security
De-escalation and diplomacy
Accepting responsibility? Institutions and the security implications of climate change
War, land, and agrarian change
Socio-hydrological features of armed conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin
Rethinking climate conflicts
Armed ‘Green’ Disaster Capitalism
Exclusion of Climate Migrants from the Global Compact on Refugees
A Comprehensive Framework for the Relationship Between Organized Violence and Climate Change
The Lake Chad Development and Climate Resilience Action Plan
The Arid Lands
Is climate change a driver of armed conflict?
From ‘Securitization’ of Climate Change to ’Climatization‘ of the Security Field
An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security
The Boko Haram Insurgence In Nigeria
Water, Drought, Climate Change, and Conflict in Syria
Rethinking climate refugees and climate conflict
Interpreting mega-development projects as territorial traps
Understanding the Local-Global Dichotomy and Drivers of the Boko Haram Insurgency
Rainfall intensification in tropical semi-arid regions
On the causes of the shrinking of Lake Chad
Le « dessèchement » de l'Afrique sahélienne
Securitization of climate change
Battling Instability? The Recurring Logic of French Military Interventions in Africa
Saviors and Survivors
Conflicts about water in Lake Chad
Preparing the French military to a warming world
The ‘solution’ is now the ‘problem
Environmental security and climate change
Picturing the Clima(c)tic
Frontiers
Oil rents, international loans and Agrarian policies in Nigeria, 1970–1992
Cultivation of the Floor of Lake Chad
Boko Haram
EU migration management in the Sahel
The ‘view from nowhere’? Spatial politics and cultural significance of high-resolution satellite imagery
Climate Barbarians at the Gate? A critique of apocalyptic narratives on ‘climate refugees’
Climate change and the Syrian civil war, Part II
Imaging vulnerability
Seeing like a satellite
Fishing and Farming at Lake Chad
Untold Story of Boko Haram Insurgency
Transnational Elite Knowledge Networks
Boko Haram
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries
Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited
Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited
Discourses of climate security
Conflicting messages? The IPCC on conflict and human security
What's at Stake in Securitising Climate Change? Towards a Differentiated Approach
Engaging Foucault
Assessing the impact of the securitization narrative on climate change adaptation in Nigeria
The disappearance of Lake Chad
Les « crises sahéliennes » entre perceptions locales et gestions internationales
Converging on Disaster
Positivist Climate Conflict Research
Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security
Does climate change drive land-use conflicts in the Sahel
From Climate Change to Conflict? No Consensus Yet
Climate Change, Conflict and Development in Sudan
Threatening Dystopias
Gardens of Eden or Hearts of Darkness? The Genealogy of Discourses on Environmental Insecurity and Climate Wars in Africa
Slouching towards dystopia
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |