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Mobilising the language of emergency: Human security and climate action discourse
(Royal Irish Academy, 2020)
This paper considers the UN's 1994 concept of human security as indispensable in progressively framing climate security discourse. It argues for a human security agenda that encapsulates a broad and integrated security ...
The task of envisioning security for the Anthropocene
(Royal Irish Academy, 2023)
Our Anthropocene age is defined by a wide array of anthropogenic pressures on
planet Earth, which have produced multiple human and environmental insecuri ties. From climate change to population displacements, from ecosystem ...
Towards a human security vision of global climate action
(Elsevier, 2019-09-02)
This commentary piece considers how smart climate action and effective climate resilience can be productively advanced via a securitization discourse that recalls the earlier emphases of the UN’s ‘human security’ concept ...
Subaltern learnings: climate resilience and human security in the Caribbean
(Routledge, 2020-11-05)
The United Nations’ invocation of ‘human security’ a generation ago promised a world increasingly governed by a ‘people-centred’ security agenda. In this paper we focus on arguably the most vital global security challenge ...