New paper on env security

[Jan Selby]

Dear all, 

You may be interested in this new multi-authored review article, ‘The many faces of environmental security’, just out in Annual Review of Environment and Resources - link here, and abstract below. It’s open access, but I’d also be happy to share a PDF for anyone in need.

Best wishes

Jan

The Many Faces of Environmental Security

Jan Selby, Gabrielle Daoust, Anwesha Dutta, Jonathan Kishen Gamu, Esther Marijnen, Ayesha Siddiqi, and Mark Zeitoun7

This review surveys recent evidence on environmental security, bringing diverse approaches to the subject and evidence relating to different environmental issues into conversation with one another. We focus on the five environmental issues most commonly viewed as having conflict or security effects: climate change, water, forests and deforestation, biodiversity and conservation, and mining and industrial pollution. For each issue, we consider evidence along three dimensions: the impacts of environmental variables on violent conflict, the conflict impacts of policy and development interventions vis-à-vis these environmental issues, and their global policy framing and institutionalization. Through this, we draw particular attention to the poverty and/or inconsistency of the evidence relating to environmental variations, which stands in stark contrast to the extensive evidence on policy and development interventions; noting that policymakers have been much more concerned with the former theme than the latter, we call for this imbalance to be addressed.

Jan Selby
Professor of International Politics and Climate Change
School of Politics and International Studies
University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

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‘There is no human climate niche’, One Earth (2024, with Mike Hulme and Wolfgang Cramer) here

‘Climate change and migration: a review and new framework for analysis’, WIREs Climate Change (2024, with Gabrielle Daoust) here

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