Introduction: Rethinking climate change, conflict and security
Author
Selby, J.
Hoffmann, C.
Date
2014Source Title
Geopolitics
Print ISSN
1465-0045
Electronic ISSN
1557-3028
Publisher
Routledge
Volume
19
Issue
4
Pages
747 - 756
Language
English
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This special issue of Geopolitics presents a series of critical interventions on the links between global anthropogenic climate change, conflict and security. In this introduction, we situate the special issue by providing an assessment of the state of debate on climate security, and then by summarising the eight articles that follow. We observe, to start with, that contemporary climate security discourse is dominated by a problematic ensemble of policy-led framings and assumptions. And we submit that the contributions to this issue help rethink this dominant discourse in two distinct ways, offering both a series of powerful critiques, plus new interpretations of climate-conflict linkages which extend beyond Malthusian orthodoxy.