The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security

作者：Judith Nora Hardt, Dhanasree Jayaram, Cameron Harrington, Duncan McLaren, Nicholas P. Simpson, Alistair D. B. Cook, M. Cecilia Oliveira, Franziskus von Lucke, Julia Maria Trombetta, Marwa Daoudy, Rita Floyd, Chinwe Philomina Oramah, Mely Caballero Anthony, Adrien Estève · 发表于：PLOS Climate · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1371/journal.pclm.0000402 · 被引用次数：8 · 研究领域：Transboundary Water Resource Management、Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration、Climate Change and Geoengineering

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 SummaryA rapid and widespread institutionalization of climate security is underway, led by powerful states and international organizations.Recognition of the climate crisis by security actors as a serious threat to humanity is long overdue, but it is imperative that this institutionalization is critically scrutinized.This commentary highlights specific dangers that accompany the institutional mainstreaming of climate security, including a non-reflexive integration into traditional security paradigms, a growing geopolitical separation between discourses emerging from the Global South and North, and policymaking that tends to draw from a narrow view of the science.Science-based and actionable research informed by pluralistic understandings of climate securit...