Germany: Climate Change, Human Security and Southern Populations

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-175
Author(s):  
Franziskus von Lucke
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Security

An analysis of major environmental threats to human security in Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-139
Author(s):  
Naresh Bhakta Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
Government Action ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Environmental Threat ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
The Government

The paper mainly analyses the environmental threats focusing on climate change to human security in Nepal. Major aspects of human security are interlinked and interconnected in our context. Among them, human security offers much to the vibrant field of environmental security in Nepal. Environmental threats are linked to the overall impact on human survival, well-being, and productivity. A great deal of human security is tied to peoples’ access to natural resources and vulnerabilities to environmental change. The major environmental threats in our context is the climate change which have widespread implications for Nepal, causing impacts to water availability, agricultural production, forestry, among many other detrimental effects. The critical threat of environmental security needs to be taken into serious consideration to save our succeeding generation. This article primarily interpreted the government action towards emerging environmental threat based on realist approach. For the study of theme of this article, descriptive and analytical research has been used to draw present major environmental threats in Nepal. With consideration to factors, this article attempted to identify the major environmentally vulnerable areas that are likely to hamper the overall status of human security in Nepal. This paper also tried to suggest the measures to enhance the environmental security considering prospects and policy focusing on Nepalese diverse aspects.

Climate change and security in Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-203
Author(s):  
Wilfrid Greaves
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
National Security ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Future Research ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Domestic Conflict ◽  
The Third ◽  
Current State ◽  
Humanitarian Crises

This article examines the implications of human-caused climate change for security in Canada. The first section outlines the current state of climate change, the second discusses climate change impacts on human security in Canada, and the third outlines four other areas of Canada’s national interests threatened by climate change: economic threats; Arctic threats; humanitarian crises at home and abroad; and the threat of domestic conflict. In the conclusion, I argue that climate change has clearly not been successfully “securitized” in Canada, despite the material threats it poses to human and national security, and outline directions for future research.

scholarly journals Perspectives on contextual vulnerability in discourses of climate conflict

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. T. Okpara ◽  
L. C. Stringer ◽  
A. J. Dougill
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Constructivist Theory ◽  
Discursive Formation ◽  
Wide Range

Abstract. The science of climate security and conflict is replete with controversies. Yet the increasing vulnerability of politically fragile countries to the security consequences of climate change is widely acknowledged. Although climate conflict reflects a continuum of conditional forces that coalesce around the notion of vulnerability, how different portrayals of vulnerability influence the discursive formation of climate conflict relations remains an exceptional but under-researched issue. This paper combines a systematic discourse analysis with a vulnerability interpretation diagnostic tool to explore (i) how discourses of climate conflict are constructed and represented, (ii) how vulnerability is communicated across discourse lines, and (iii) the strength of contextual vulnerability against a deterministic narrative of scarcity-induced conflict, such as that pertaining to land. Systematically characterising climate conflict discourses based on the central issues constructed, assumptions about mechanistic relationships, implicit normative judgements and vulnerability portrayals, provides a useful way of understanding where discourses differ. While discourses show a wide range of opinions "for" and "against" climate conflict relations, engagement with vulnerability has been less pronounced – except for the dominant context centrism discourse concerned about human security (particularly in Africa). In exploring this discourse, we observe an increasing sense of contextual vulnerability that is oriented towards a concern for complexity rather than predictability. The article concludes by illustrating that a turn towards contextual vulnerability thinking will help advance a constructivist theory-informed climate conflict scholarship that recognises historicity, specificity, and variability as crucial elements of contextual totalities of any area affected by climate conflict.

Climate Change and Human Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (si1) ◽  
pp. 13-37
Author(s):  
A. Chilunjika ◽  
N. Gumede
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan

Human security, climate change, and migration

2021 ◽  
pp. 132-150
Author(s):  
Nuno Severiano Teixeira ◽  
Joana Castro Pereira ◽  
Susana Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Security ◽  
And Migration

Transhumant Pastoral Economy and Human Security in Nigeria: Whither Civil Society Organisations?

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 1033-1053 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chikodiri Nwangwu ◽  
Peter O Mbah ◽  
Chinedu C Ike ◽  
Otu Akanu Otu ◽  
Chikwado Ezugworie
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Fierce Competition ◽  
Peasant Farmers ◽  
Pastoral Economy ◽  
Scholarly Attention

The limited access to land in most African states has engendered a fierce competition, especially among various agricultural user groups. The two major groups of agricultural land users are transhumant pastoralists and sedentary peasant farmers. The internecine conflict between these agro-user groups has grave implications for human security in Nigeria and beyond. Explanation of the conflict has centred on climate change and environmental security, population growth and urbanisation, and insecurity. However, the transnational character of this conflict, often made possible by relevant regional protocols, has not received adequate scholarly attention. This paper argues that networking of regional bodies and other stakeholders is the panacea for tackling the tension-soaked relationship between these land users.

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