TY - JOUR
PY - 2018//
TI - Disasters, climate change, and securitisation: the United Nations Security Council and the United Kingdom's security policy
JO - Disasters
A1 - Peters, Katie
SP - S196
EP - S214
VL - 42
IS - Suppl 2
N2 - Since climate change was included on the United Nations Security Council's agenda in 2007, there has been much debate about whether or not it has been securitised. This paper starts from the premise that climate change has undergone a partial securitisation-that is, a gradual process wherein political choices are made to frame certain issues in particular ways. Climate change has been reframed from a purely developmental and environmental concern to one that impels foreign policy and security domains. This paper makes a novel contribution to disasters, climate change, and security studies by arguing that explicit and implicit links to natural hazard-related disasters have been employed as part of a gradual process of securitisation, or, more specifically, the partial securitisation of climate change. This is demonstrated by drawing on two cases: United Nations Security Council debates between 2007 and 2017; and the United Kingdom's security policy between 1997 and 2017.
© 2018 The Author(s). Disasters © Overseas Development Institute, 2018.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 0361-3666 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12307 ID - ref1 ER -