Climate Security
The Role of Knowledge and Scientific Information in the Making of a Nexus
- 186 pages
- English
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Climate Security
The Role of Knowledge and Scientific Information in the Making of a Nexus
About this book
This book presents an empirical study of the role of knowledge in the making of the climate-security nexus.
Climate change might give the Soviet Union a competitive advantage in the Cold War. Extreme droughts contributed to wars in Darfur, Syria or Yemen. Melting sea ice creates geopolitical risks. Russia's climate-destroying hydrocarbons enabled its invasion of Ukraine. These are just some of the many ways in which climate change and conflicts have been linked into a climate-security nexus. In this innovative book, Matti Goldberg considers how such connections are constructed and asks to what extent they are driven by evidence and science. Goldberg describes the tools used to present the wars of Darfur and Syria as "climate wars" and considers the fragmented role of the sciences in those presentations as well as the resulting patterns of influence and marginalization of impacted populations. The author also highlights how the international community can better integrate the situations of people at the frontlines of climate change into policymaking and, based on an analysis of the dynamic nature of power, identifies potential entry points for positive change.
This book is a must-read for researchers interested in climate-security links, in science-policy interfaces, and in the formation of nexuses of issues in international politics. It is also of interest to practitioners working on the climate-security nexus and science-policy interfaces.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The climate-security contradiction: accelerating securitization under disputed evidence
- 3 Nexus formation, knowledge and international relations
- 4 Understanding knowledge and climate-conflict links with a sociology of translations
- 5 Darfur: the first “climate war”?
- 6 Syria: did climate change “open the gates of hell”?
- 7 Comparing the two climate wars
- 8 Knowledge and the making of climate-conflict links
- 9 Finding a balance between knowledge and narratives
- Index