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2 - The Many Faces of Environmental Security

from I - The Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2020

Marwa Daoudy
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Chapter 2 explores the securitization of climate change by engaging with the scholarly debate around environmental and climate security, human security, water and food security, and climate-induced migration. The chapter traces the broadening of traditional security studies to include non-Western perspectives and a more diverse array of potential threats, including environmental degradation, poverty, water scarcity, and climate change. This theoretical review provides the foundation for the discussion of a potential climate-food insecurity and migration nexus. The author shows that the literature has not conclusively shown linkages between climate change, food insecurity, migration and conflict – either globally or in Syria – but that the HECS framework can be used to rigorously evaluate the interactions between these variables. A key theme of this chapter is the need to recognize and prioritize non-Western and marginalized perspectives and agency in environmental security and migration discourses.

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The Origins of the Syrian Conflict
Climate Change and Human Security
, pp. 24 - 76
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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