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Climate change , Securitization, Copenhagen School , Critical Security Studies , Environmental SecurityCopyright (c) 2017 Maria Francisca CASADO CLARO
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Abstract
In the early 1980s, environmental security was not part of the international security studies mainstream, where it would be hard to imagine that it did not belong today. Even though environmental security is still developing and advancing in the political agenda, it has evolved from being initially considered a controversial field that spawned a lot of debate to being considered an aggravating factor in pre-existing conflicts or conditions and then end up having its own entity, driven by first order existential concerns, such as climate change at the time of the Anthropocene.
This article begins with a revision of the concept of environmental security, it then addresses the analytical framework of the Copenhagen School and its application to the environmental security sector, with the aim of analyzing the successful securitization of climate change by the international community.
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