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Book SynopsisThis topical Handbook explores the emergence of climate change as an international security issue, the threats it poses, and the political and academic debates it has prompted. Framing climate change as a security issue, it explores the ways relevant actors, states and international organizations have conceptualized climate security and its associated threats.
Theoretically sound and empirically innovative, this Handbook explores the political implications of linking climate change and security and tackles the questions that are subsequently raised. Through a collection of international case studies, expert contributors explore a diverse range of issues emerging in the debate about climate change and security, including the problem of migration, the impact on energy security and the role of the military. Contributing to various discourses, logics, practices and constructions of climate security, the Handbook outlines how security language shapes and transforms the way climate change is governed. Ultimately, it identifies an emerging, broader reconceptualization of international security in the Anthropocene.
Displaying the challenges that climate change poses in the context of existing security practices and institutions, this Handbook will be vital for policymakers looking to identify and understand threats to formulate effective countermeasures. It will also prove useful to students and scholars of security studies, international relations, climate change and energy politics, environmental politics and policy, and governance.
Trade Review‘This timely volume fills an important gap in the growing literature on climate security by providing a multidisciplinary overview of the concepts of climate change and security. Blending theory, practice, and topical insights, the Handbook pulls together a range of approaches to provide baselines and methodologies for analyzing the complex and interrelated issues of climate and security.’ -- Charlotte Ku, Texas A&M University School of Law, US
‘Energy security in the anthropocene; climate emergency; securitization of climate; climatization of security; climate resilience; and beyond. This welcome volume explains, and constructively furthers, the collective struggle for discourses and practices adequate to meet the enormity of the climate-related global governance challenges we face today.’ -- Shirley Scott, UNSW Canberra, Australia
Table of ContentsContents: List of contributors vii 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Climate Change and International Security 1 Maria Julia Trombetta PART I THEORETICAL APPROACHES: TRADITIONAL AND NEW PERSPECTIVES 2 National security and climate change 16 Emilian Kavalski 3 Climate change and human security: implications for international security 32 Lorraine Elliott 4 Climate change and ecological security 49 Matt McDonald 5 Climate change, security and the posthuman 63 Stephen Hobden 6 Climate change and the transformation of security: securitization and beyond 75 Maria Julia Trombetta 7 Climate change and security in the Anthropocene 94 Simon Dalby PART II ACTORS, INSTITUTIONS AND STRATEGIC CULTURES 8 United States: the dominance of national security and the climatisation of the security and defence sector 109 Franziskus von Lucke 9 Climate change and security: the case of the European Union (EU) 125 Judith Nora Hardt and Karlos Pérez de Armiño 10 Climate security with Chinese characteristics 142 Juha A. Vuori 11 India and climate security: domestic and international discourses 157 Dhanasree Jayaram 12 Climate change at the United Nations Security Council: securitization, climatization and beyond 180 Lucile Maertens and Maria Julia Trombetta 13 The United Nations Environment Programme, climate change and security: between functional necessity and practical rationality 199 Lucile Maertens PART III ISSUES AND CHALLENGES 14 Climate change and military forces 216 Michael Thomas 15 Energy technology, climate change, and security in Anthropocene 235 Maximilian Mayer and Susanne Peters 16 Climate change, global health, and international security 254 Robert L. Ostergard, Jr and Nicholas Seltzer 17 Water, energy and food security nexus approach to responding to hydrological changes driven by climate change 273 Zilin Wang and Faith Ka Shun Chan 18 Re-imagining political life: beyond the climate–security–migration nexus 293 Raffaela Puggioni and Maria Julia Trombetta 19 Climate change and gender security, implications for a HUGE security 309 Úrsula Oswald-Spring 20 A thousand prudent actions for a climate-resilient future 326 Pol Bargués 21 Conclusion: climate change and international security: between securitization and climatization 342 Maria Julia Trombetta Index
