Climate change and maritime security narrative: the case of the international maritime organisation

Germond, Basil; Ha, Fong Wa

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“… analysis of the impact of environmental migration on the emergence of conflicts in developing countries [37][38][39][40];  study of ways to achieve sustainable development in a changing climate, environmental change, and migration [41][42][43][44][45];  consideration of African and Asian regions as the most prone to Environmental migration, etc. [37,46].…”

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Environmental migration and country security: Theoretical analysis and empirical research

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The article considers the impact of environmental changes on population migration and security of countries. Theoretical aspects of Environmental migration, in particular its essence and types, are studied. The main directions of scientific research in this field are considered. In particular, much attention is about finding ways to adapt to changes in the environment and minimize the negative consequences of these changes to achieve sustainable development in both regions and countries. The study found that internal population movements are mainly due to climatic factors such as storms and floods. It was determined that in 2019, about 52% of new mixing was caused by storms and 40% - by floods. Countries for which the phenomenon of ecological migration is most characteristic are India, the Philippines, the United States, China, and Indonesia. The main problems that arise in the study of Environmental mobility of the population are identifiedThey are mainly related to the lack of information and statistical base for conducting qualitative and diverse research.

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“…However, climate change is not specifically linked to maritime security. Similarly, a comprehensive corpus linguistics analysis of the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) narrative (Germond and Ha, 2018) has shown that there is no direct discursive link between climate change and maritime security, although indirect links via migration are present, i.e. "migration" is a collocate of both "climate change" and "maritime security" in the IMO's textual production.…”

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Climate change and maritime security

Germond

Mazaris

2019

Marine Policy

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Climate change has been recognised as a major issue for coastal populations. Under this context, the potential socioeconomic , environmental and health impacts at local, regional and global scales have received considerable attention by scientists. The knowledge gained feed official strategic documents, which aim to increase awareness but also propose and apply management and mitigation measures towards reducing risks for human beings and the natural environment. Dependencies between human security, social vulnerability of coastal communities and the occurrence of maritime crime have also been studied. There is a consensus on the need to deepen the understanding of the links between climate change effects and threats to maritime security, but it remains to be seen if existing knowledge on the interplay between climate change and maritime security has been translated into policy. This article offers a synthesis on recent evidence and knowledge gained to elaborate the nexus between climate change impacts, social vulnerabilities and the occurrence of maritime criminality. We further explore the extent to which official documents account for the maritime dimension of climate change security. Despite the existence of an embryonic official discourse linking climate change and maritime security, our analysis reveals significant gaps between the concerns raised by the academic community and what is acknowledged in national and regional official strategic documents. Informing decisionmakers and stakeholders about the possible dependencies between climate change and maritime security is thus a crucial step towards improving global ocean governance.

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“…The topics in focus were: globalisation, the legislative framework, leadership, and hegemony in international seaborne trade [5]. In another study, based on the research of available IMO documents, Germond and Wa Ha [14] point to the links between intertwined concepts, such as climate change and maritime security. The application of language software and a content-based approach associated with digitalisation and sustainable shipping is also conducted in the study carried out by del Giudice et al [8] There are myriad corpus analysis software programs or text-mining tools, which are often used for the analysis of large chunks of texts.…”

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A Discourse Analysis Approach to Establishing Prevalent Concepts in the Maritime Community

Dževerdanović Pejović

2023

Pomorstvo (Online)

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The paper analyses prevalent topics found in narratives of the maritime discourse community in the past seven years, from 2016 to 2022. For this purpose, we compiled a corpus of eighty speeches given by the respected Mr. Kitack Lim, secretary-general of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). The texts are found on the official IMO website and were delivered on the occasion of significant maritime events. The analysis section combines quantitative and qualitative methods. The sophisticated language program Wordstat was used to determine frequencies, dominant phrases, collocations and prevalent topics. In addition, critical discourse analysis was used to interpret linguistic facts through the lenses of an actual maritime setting. The results reveal how dynamic changes in the maritime discourse community are reflected in narratives. We note how traditional issues in seafaring have been complemented with new perspectives impacted by globalisation, digitalisation, automatisation, issues of social and human rights which have been raised, women’s empowerment, questions of environmental protection and many more. We conclude that the established concepts cannot be demarcated: they are increasingly interdependent and have the seafarer in their focus. We also point to the possibility of future research in the domain of comparative analysis on a sample of larger corpora that could make use of research articles or academic narratives about the maritime discourse community.

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Climate change and maritime security narrative: the case of the international maritime organisation

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Environmental migration and country security: Theoretical analysis and empirical research

Environmental migration and country security: Theoretical analysis and empirical research

Climate change and maritime security

A Discourse Analysis Approach to Establishing Prevalent Concepts in the Maritime Community

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