Climate Security and Militarization: Geo-Economics and Geo-Securities of Climate Change

Abstract

Although there have been conflicts over resources since the earliest human societies, interest in both renewable and non-renewable resources within environmental security frameworks has dramatically increased since the end of the Cold War (Doyle 2008). Security is usually understood in state-centric terms, ‘concerned with intentional physical (mainly military) threats to the integrity and independence of the nation-state’ (Scrivener 2002: 184).