Tag: Environmental Security
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Interview – Robert Falkner
Robert Falkner discusses his research on environmental norm changes, climate policy, and the role of technology in mitigating climate change.
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‘Firepower’ and Environmental Security in the Anthropocene
A broader understanding of the interconnectedness of things in a dynamic biosphere where a combustion powered technosphere is rapidly expanding is essential.
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Environment and International Politics: Linking Humanity and Nature
Given the speed of global transformations and the failures to integrate ecology into larger concerns the question of ‘who speaks for Earth?’ is a pressing issue for IR.
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Ecological Security
The profound nature of the challenge posed by climate change arguably compels us to think in new ways about what security means and how it might be realized.
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Climate Change, Environmental Security Studies and the Morality of Climate Security
In popular and political debate climate change is increasingly referred to as a security issue. But thus far climate change does not constitute an objective existential threat, and as such, a securitization of climate change – at least here in the West – is morally unjustifiable.
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Water Security in the 21st Century
The total quantity of water in the world is immense, but over 97.5 percent, is either saltwater or locked in ice caps (1.75%). The amount economically available for human use is only 0.007 percent of the total water available on earth, or about 13,500 cubic kilometres. While this seems like a massive amount, it only…