TY - JOUR
T1 - The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security
AU - Hardt, Judith N.
AU - Jayaram, Dhanasree
AU - Harrington, Cameron
AU - McLaren, Duncan
AU - Simpson, Nicholas P.
AU - Cook, Alistair D.B.
AU - Oliveira, Maria Cecilia
AU - von Lucke, Franziskus
AU - Trombetta, Julia Maria
AU - Daoudy, Marwa
AU - Floyd, Rita
AU - Oramah, Chinwe Philomina
AU - Anthony, Mely Caballero
AU - Estève, Adrien
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Hardt et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2024/4
Y1 - 2024/4
N2 - A 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 security is needed to counter this trend.
AB - A 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 security is needed to counter this trend.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000402
DO - 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000402
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85210562786
SN - 2767-3200
VL - 3
JO - PLOS Climate
JF - PLOS Climate
IS - 4
M1 - e0000402
ER -