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Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security

Edited By Jan Selby, Clemens Hoffmann Copyright 2016
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge
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Is global climate change likely to become a significant source of violent conflict, and should it therefore be seen as a national security challenge? Most Northern governments, militaries, think tanks and NGOs believe so, as do many academic researchers, on the grounds that increased temperatures, changing precipitation patterns and rising sea levels will worsen existing social stresses,... Read more

1. Introduction: Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security  Jan Selby and Clemens Hoffmann

2. Converging on Disaster: Climate Security and the Malthusian Anticipatory Regime for Africa  Betsy Hartmann

3. Gardens of Eden or Hearts of Darkness? The Genealogy of Discourses on Environmental Insecurity and Climate Wars in Africa  Harry Verhoeven

4. Climate Insecurity in (Post)Conflict Areas: The Biopolitics of United Nations Vulnerability Assessments  Michael Mason

5. Positivist Climate Conflict Research: A Critique  Jan Selby

6. What’s at Stake in Securitising Climate Change? Towards a Differentiated Approach  Franziskus von Lucke, Zehra Wellmann, and Thomas Diez

7. Climatic Disasters and Radical Politics in Southern Pakistan: The Non-linear Connection  Ayesha Siddiqi

8. Understanding Resilience in Climate Change and Conflict Affected Regions of Nepal  Janani Vivekananda, Janpeter Schilling, and Dan Smith

9. The Militarisation and Marketisation of Nature: An Alternative Lens to ‘Climate-Conflict’  Alexander Dunlap and James Fairhead

Biography

Jan Selby is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK, and Director of the Sussex Centre for Conflict and Security Research (SCSR). His research focuses on peace processes, environmental security, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and International Relations theory.

Clemens Hoffmann is Assistant Professor of International Relations, at Bilkent University, Turkey. His research interests include political ecology, environmental conflict and security, critical, postcolonial and materialist IR theory and Turkish foreign policy.

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