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Disasters, climate change, and securitisation: the United Nations Security Council and the United Kingdom's security policy.
- Source :
- Disasters; Oct2018 Supplement S2, Vol. 42, pS196-S214, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Since climate change was included on the United Nations Security Council's agenda in 2007, there has been much debate about whether or not it has been securitised. This paper starts from the premise that climate change has undergone a partial securitisationāthat is, a gradual process wherein political choices are made to frame certain issues in particular ways. Climate change has been reframed from a purely developmental and environmental concern to one that impels foreign policy and security domains. This paper makes a novel contribution to disasters, climate change, and security studies by arguing that explicit and implicit links to natural hazardārelated disasters have been employed as part of a gradual process of securitisation, or, more specifically, the partial securitisation of climate change. This is demonstrated by drawing on two cases: United Nations Security Council debates between 2007 and 2017; and the United Kingdom's security policy between 1997 and 2017. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DISASTERS
CLIMATE change
ASSET backed financing
INTERNATIONAL relations
MANAGEMENT
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03613666
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Disasters
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 131705977
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12307