Historicizing Environmental Security

Zwierlein, Cornel

doi:10.1007/s41125-017-0026-4

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“…The focus of Political Ecologists who emerged from the 1980s was land ownership, economic structures and conflict in a much wider sense than inter-state wars. In contrast, the roots of environmental security lie very much in international relations scholarship which, traditionally at least, is a discipline that critical social scientists tend to distance themselves from as being politically conservative, state-centric and methodologically positivist (Zwierlein, 2018). The emergence and popularization of the resource wars approach (including its 'real world' influence on governments such as in Washington and London in the 1990s) served to reinforce this perception.…”

Section: The Ontology Of Environmental Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On one level the RSPB and Hohenzollerns were seeking to secure birds for the bird's sake (though also for their aesthetic value). On another level conservation came to be seen by the state as in the national interest; in material or aesthetic terms (Zwierlein, 2018). Environmental determinism came to inform national policies to a much greater degree than before.…”

Section: Environmental Securitization Via Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Back to the future: environmental security in nineteenth century global politics

Hough

2019

Global Security: Health, Science and Policy

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Environmental security is generally held to be a contemporary or even futuristic concern. However, as with many facets of security thought, this overlooks how the unparalleled technological, economic and social changes of the 19 th Century forged much of the international political landscape we now inhabit. The tendency for ecological political enquiry to focus on the rise of ecocentric policy serves to obscure how many aspects of national and human security relating to environmental change were apparent in the 19 th century. Human insecurity in the face of pollution and resource depletion was a part of the emergence of ecological science in response to the industrialisation of Europe and North America. In addition, this was the era when European imperialism reached its apex and European nationalisms fully emerged; both of which contributed to the national securitization of the environment around much of the world in contrasting ways as the desire to both conquer and preserve nature became more evident. Environmental questions of national, human and ecological security are not peculiar to the present age and were very much apparent in 19 th Century global politics.

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Section: The Ontology Of Environmental Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Environmental Securitization Via Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%