Citation

Peters K. Disasters 2018; 42(Suppl 2): S196-S214.

Affiliation

Senior Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/disa.12307

PMID

30113710

Abstract

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

Keywords

United Kingdom; United Nations Security Council; climate change; disasters; securitisation