Securing sustainability
The case for critical environmental security in the Arctic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9225005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wilfrid Greaves (0000-0002-5485-068X, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 660-671 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polar Record (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-2474 • E-ISSN: 1475-3057 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0032247416000218 |
| OpenAlex | W2341048173 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 61 |
The politics, economies, and ecology of the Arctic region are experiencing fundamental transformation driven largely by human-caused environmental change. Drawing on the work of Robert Cox, this article presents a critical account of environmental security that allows security issues in the Arctic to be reconceptualised. It outlines the environmental changes transforming the Arctic, and theorises the Arctic as a regional environmental security complex in which conditions of security for state and non-state referent objects are predicated on a particular ecological context. It then surveys state- and human security issues in the Arctic, and argues that environmental change has destabilised the ecological base on which the contemporary Arctic as a cooperative region supportive of human activity has been built. The article concludes by outlining alternative ways of conceiving of Arctic security that are more compatible with maintaining the region's ecological base, and suggests that dominant approaches to Arctic security are pathological because they remain premised on the control, extraction and consumption of hydrocarbon resources. It argues that, in the context of the geological Anthropocene, security cannot be sustainable if it fails to address the relationship between human wellbeing and human-caused environmental change, or informs practices that further contribute to environmental change
Arctic · Climate change · Context (archaeology) · Environmental change · Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Environmental security · Geography · Human security · Political science · Sustainability · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Ecology · Environmental Science · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense
The Prize
Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system
The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2 °C
Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas in the Arctic
Geology of mankind
A safe operating space for humanity
The Evolution of International Security Studies
The halse Promise of International Institutions
Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change
Negotiating the Arctic
Environmental Security
The Politics of Arctic Sovereignty
Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict
Environmental and Human Security in the Arctic
Human Security and the Environment
Arctic Security in an Age of Climate Change
Security
Environmental Change and Globalization
Green Political Thought
Canadian Sovereignty Linked to Energy Development in the Arctic
Post Petroleum Security in Lofoten
Arctic Energy Resources
Climate Change and Environmental Security
Russia's Armed Forces and the Arctic
Human Security Research Practices
Conceptual Notes on Energy Security
Social Forces, States and World Orders
On the Threshold
Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict
Adapting to the Effects of Climate Change on Inuit Health
Arctic Climate Tipping Points
Who Owns the North Pole
For Whom, from What
The politics of security and international law in Norway's Arctic waters
Whither the Arctic? Conflict or cooperation in the circumpolar north
Seduced and surrounded by security
Mikhail Gorbachev, the Murmansk Initiative, and the Desecuritization of Interstate Relations in the Arctic
The Arctic
Society, steward or security actor? Three visions of the Arctic Council
Naturally insecure
Flag planting and finger pointing
Choosing Not to See
The environment and emancipation in critical security studies
Canadian Sovereignty versus Northern Security
Mirror Images
The Weight on Our Shoulders Is Too Much, and We Are Falling
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |