Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction: Climate Change, Human Security, and Violent Conflict in the Anthropocene

      • Hans Günter Brauch, Jürgen Scheffran

      Pages 3-40

3. Climate Change, Human Security, Societal Stability, and Violent Conflict: Empirical and Theoretical Linkages

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. On Environmental Change and Armed Conflict

      • Halvard Buhaug, Ole Magnus Theisen

      Pages 43-55

   3. Climate Change, Societal Stability, and the SID Project

      • Peter F. Nardulli, Kalev H. Leetaru

      Pages 57-76

   4. Climate Change, Conflict, and Fragility: Getting the Institutions Right

      • Dan Smith, Janani Vivekananda

      Pages 77-90

   5. Theories and Models of Climate-Security Interaction: Framework and Application to a Climate Hot Spot in North Africa

      • Jürgen Scheffran, P. Michael Link, Janpeter Schilling

      Pages 91-131

   6. Global Climate Policy Reinforces Local Social Path-Dependent Structures: More Conflict in the World?

      • Jasmin Kominek

      Pages 133-147

4. Climate Change and the Securitization Discourse

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Climate Change and the Environmental Conflict Discourse

      • Maria J. Trombetta

      Pages 151-164

   3. Climate Change as a Driver of Security Policy

      • Michael Brzoska

      Pages 165-184

   4. From ‘Securitization’ of Climate Change to ’Climatization‘ of the Security Field: Comparing Three Theoretical Perspectives

      • Angela Oels

      Pages 185-205

   5. Critical Deconstruction of Environmental Security and Human Security Concepts in the Anthropocene

      • Judith Nora Hardt

      Pages 207-221

   6. Political in Nature: The Conflict-fuelling Character of International Climate Policies

      • Linda Wallbott

      Pages 223-241

   7. Security as a Weapon: How Cataclysm Discourses Frame International Climate Negotiations

      • Delf Rothe

      Pages 243-258

   8. Audience: A Weak Link in the Securitization of the Environment?

      • Tasos Karafoulidis

      Pages 259-272

   9. Words, Visuals, and the Vanished Enemy: Visual Securitization and the COP15 Opening Film

      • Tore Rørbæk

      Pages 273-287

5. Climate Change and Migration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289

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   2. Climate Change and Human Migration: Towards a Global Governance System to Protect Climate Refugees

      • Frank Biermann, Ingrid Boas

      Pages 291-300

Severe droughts, damaging floods and mass migration: Climate change is becoming a focal point for security and conflict research and a challenge for the world’s governance structures. But how severe are the security risks and conflict potentials of climate change? Could global warming trigger a sequence of events leading to economic decline, social unrest and political instability? What are the causal relationships between resource scarcity and violent conflict? This book brings together international experts to explore these questions using in-depth case studies from around the world. Furthermore, the authors discuss strategies, institutions and cooperative approaches to stabilize the climate-society interaction.

• Armed Conflict
• Climate Change Impact and Adaptation
• Environmental and Human Security
• Resource Conflicts
• Societal Stability
• Climate change management

• ZMAW, Institute for Geography, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  Jürgen Scheffran

• , Institute of Peace Research and Security, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany

  Michael Brzoska

• AG Friedensforschung + Europ., Sicherheitspolitik, AFES-PRESS, Mosbach, Germany

  Hans Günter Brauch

• ZMAW, Res. Group Climate Change and Security, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany

  Peter Michael Link, Janpeter Schilling

Jürgen Scheffran is professor and head of the research group Climate Change and Security at the Institute for Geography and the KlimaCampus Excellence Initiative of Hamburg University. He held positions at Marburg University, Technical University of Darmstadt, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael Brzoska is professor at the University of Hamburg and director of the Institute of Peace Research and Security Policy. He erlier had positions at the Bonn International Center for Conversion and the Stockholm Peace Research Institute working on issues related to conflict, security and disarmament.
Hans Günter Brauch is adjunct professor (PD) in international relations at the Free University of Berlin; chairman, Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS; senior fellow at UNU-EHS in Bonn and the lead editor of the Hexagon Book Series. He was guest professor at Frankfurt, Erfurt, Leipzig and Greifswald University.
Peter Michael Link is a postdoctoral scientist at the research group Climate change and Security at the Institute for Geography and the KlimaCampus Excellence Initiative of Hamburg University. He has worked on the economic impacts of climate change with an emphasis on marine resources and aspects of land use change.
Janpeter Schilling is a research associate and PhD student in the research group Climate Change
and Security at the Institute for Geography and in the KlimaCampus Excellence Initiative of Hamburg University. In the course of his studies he focused on different aspects related to climate change.

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