Disasters, climate change, and securitisation

The United Nations Security Council and the United Kingdom's security policy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5138192
AutoresKatie Peters (0000-0001-5455-7945, Senior Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute United Kingdom, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume42
FascículoS2
PáginasS196-S214
Data de publicação2018-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDisasters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/disa.12307
PMID30113710
OpenAlexW2885225351
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas18

Since climate change was included on the United Nations Security Council's agenda in 2007, there has been much debate about whether or not it has been securitised. This paper starts from the premise that climate change has undergone a partial securitisation-that is, a gradual process wherein political choices are made to frame certain issues in particular ways. Climate change has been reframed from a purely developmental and environmental concern to one that impels foreign policy and security domains. This paper makes a novel contribution to disasters, climate change, and security studies by arguing that explicit and implicit links to natural hazard-related disasters have been employed as part of a gradual process of securitisation, or, more specifically, the partial securitisation of climate change. This is demonstrated by drawing on two cases: United Nations Security Council debates between 2007 and 2017; and the United Kingdom's security policy between 1997 and 2017

Climate change · Geography · International security · Natural disaster · Political economy · Political science · Premise · Security studies · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Global Security and Public Health · Public Administration · Transboundary Water Resource Management