The Securitisation of Climate Change and the Governmentalisation of Security

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“…To investigate the politics of local level climate risk management, we draw on securitization literature and specifically discussions on the securitization of climate change. The securitization of climate change refers to a change in how the policy issue is handled in comparison to before security implications were considered (Trombetta, 2008;Diez et al, 2016;von Lucke, 2020). In this paper, we explore the securitization of climate change at the local level by drawing on von Lucke's (2020) categories of securitizations of climate change.…”

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Politics of climate risk management in local government: a case study of the municipality of Stavanger

2023

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The case study presented in this paper was conducted to study the politics of local-level climate risk management and discuss these politics' implications for responses to climate change and democratic deliberation. Local government plays an important role in the response to climate change, in particular with reference to coping with unwanted consequences of climate change, such as more frequent and intense extreme weather events, including torrential rain and flooding. Climate risk management is an approach that local government can adopt to deal with these unwanted consequences. To investigate the politics of local-level climate risk management, we conducted a case study of the municipality of Stavanger in Norway. In analyzing this case study, we drew on literature on the securitization of climate change, in particular, that of risk-based securitization of climate change produced by governmental power. The analysis given here is derived by applying the concept of risk logic understood as the translation of unwanted consequences of climate change into climate risk together with the actions and use of tools influenced by the discipline of risk analysis thereby entailed. Risk logic manifests in political discourse, actors, and tools. In this case study, the justification for risk logic on unwanted consequences of climate change at the local level comes from national-level laws and regulations. Moreover, climate risk management is translated into existing bureaucratic routines, organizational structures, and the activities of professionals. Risk tools play an essential role in making unwanted consequences of climate change governable and can manifest as a consequence of risk logic or can convey risk logic. The analysis implies that the securitization of climate change based on governmental power at the local level has a depoliticizing effect on the issue. Moreover, the unique characteristics of unwanted consequences of climate change fade as climate risk is seen as a risk driver to be factored into existing and well-known risks, and thereby normalizes the situation. Finally, the focus on the cause of climate change seems to diminish because safety is a function of the referent objects, and the response thereby becomes decoupled from the wider issue of global warming.

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Politics of climate risk management in local government: a case study of the municipality of Stavanger

2023

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“…The research field was long divided between those claiming a strong link and those skeptical of a causal relationship between climate change and violent conflict. The skeptics also cautioned against securitizing climate change ( Daoudy et al, 2022;von Lucke, 2020). Recently, there has been growing agreement that, along complex causal pathways, climate change and other environmental stress factors increase the risk of violent conflict (Ide, 2023a;von Uexkull & Buhaug, 2021).…”

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From climate conflicts to environmental peacebuilding: Exploring local dimensions

Sändig,

Dalmer,

Ide

et al. 2024

Environment and Security

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Environmental change and armed conflict are major challenges of the 21st century. Meanwhile, scholars and practitioners increasingly recognize the environment and natural resources as not only sources of conflict and violence but also as potential means for peacebuilding. While research on both fronts is rapidly progressing, the literature on the climate–conflict nexus and environmental peacebuilding has remained disconnected, although climate conflicts will (and already) require peacebuilding efforts. We address this gap by identifying overlaps that open opportunities for an integrated research agenda. Particularly, we call for a deeper exploration of the local dimensions of climate-related conflicts and environmental peacebuilding. Local actors, knowledge, networks, and identities shape peacebuilding outcomes and are key in building climate-resilient peace. However, romanticizing the local sphere might also mask significant inequalities, power differences, and ethical concerns.

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“…Some are sceptical about the legitimacy of the UNSC-considering its non-representative configuration-while others are concerned about the largely ad-hoc, reactive, and conflict/crisis-centric nature of the discussions [4]. The current geopolitically structured forms of institutionalization, as reflected in the UNSC that is influenced by power politics, fail to integrate science-based research and climate justice concerns necessary for responses to climate change [5].…”

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The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security

Hardt,

Jayaram,

Harrington

et al. 2024

PLOS Clim

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After years of discussions about whether anthropogenic climate change could have security implications, the issue is now moving to the centre of international security agendas. State and non-state security actors increasingly recognize multiple links between climate change and security, such as threats to states, militaries, human well-being, and the stability of earth systems. Thus, the term 'climate security' is used across research and policy domains. The term 'climate security' is used and understood differently across diverse research and policy domains. Yet growing recognition of the issue has generated an unprecedented wave of institutionalization of climate security led by powerful states and international organizations

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The Securitisation of Climate Change and the Governmentalisation of Security

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Politics of climate risk management in local government: a case study of the municipality of Stavanger

Politics of climate risk management in local government: a case study of the municipality of Stavanger

From climate conflicts to environmental peacebuilding: Exploring local dimensions

The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security

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