Matt Mcdonald

Ecological Security (eBook, ePUB)

Climate Change and the Construction of Security

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Climate change is increasingly recognised as a security issue. Yet this recognition belies contestation over what security means and whose security is viewed as threatened. Different accounts - here defined as discourses - of security range from those focused on national sovereignty to those emphasising the vulnerability of human populations. This book examines the ethical assumptions and implications of these 'climate security' discourses, ultimately making a case for moving beyond the protection of human institutions and collectives. Drawing on insights from political ecology, feminism and critical theory, Matt McDonald suggests the need to focus on the resilience of ecosystems themselves when approaching the climate-security relationship, orienting towards the most vulnerable across time, space and species. The book outlines the ethical assumptions and contours of ecological security before exploring how it might find purchase in contemporary political contexts. A shift in this direction could not be more urgent, given the current climate crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009021487
• Artikelnr.: 66176052

Autorenporträt

Matt McDonald is Reader in International Relations in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of Security, the Environment and Emancipation (2012) and co-author (with Anthony Burke and Katrina Lee-Koo) of Ethics and Global Security (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The construction of security
2. Climate security discourses
3. Ecological security: a definition
4. Means and ends of ecological security
5. Towards Ecological Security?
Conclusion.