Climate change and the nuclear securitisation of UK energy policy

Toke, David

doi:10.1080/09644016.2013.806630

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“…The UK case is an extreme one, given the strong resonance that both climate security as well as resilience thinking produced in UK discourse. The UK is often referred to as one of the places where discourses of climate conflict first appeared in the policy field (Trombetta 2008, Toke 2013, Corry 2014, Boas 2015. It was, for instance, the UK that initiated the first-ever UN Security Council debate on climate security.…”

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From conflict to resilience? Explaining recent changes in climate security discourse and practice

Boas

Rothe

2016

Environmental Politics

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The recent rise of resilience thinking in climate security discourse and practice is examined and explained. Using the paradigmatic case of the United Kingdom, practitioners' understandings of resilience are considered to show how these actors use a resilience lens to rearticulate earlier storylines of climate conflict in terms of complexity, decentralisation, and empowerment. Practitioners in the climate security field tend to reinterpret resilience in line with their established routines. As a result, climate resilience storylines and practices turn out to be much more diverse and messy than is suggested in the conceptual literature. Building on these findings, the recent success of resilience thinking in climate security discourse is explained. Climate resilience -not despite but due to its messiness -is able to bring together a wide range of actors, traditionally standing at opposite ends of the climate security debate. Through resilience storylines, climate security discourse becomes something to which a wide range of actors, ranging from security to the development field, can relate.

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From conflict to resilience? Explaining recent changes in climate security discourse and practice

Boas

Rothe

2016

Environmental Politics

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“…Despite their broad salience, these questions are all the more remarkable, for being so relatively neglected in UK policy literatures (Toke 2013). This is so, equally in policy documents themselves and in academic analysis or even some critical commentaries (Atherton 2014).…”

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Understanding the Intensity of UK Policy Commitments to Nuclear Power

2016

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“…This mirrors these countries’ high levels of energy dependency, in particular their reliance on carbon-based fuels (see Baettig et al, 2008: 485; World Bank Group, 2012) and their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol (Moellendorf, 2009). These two factors have been shown before to cause considerable tension between stakeholders domestically (Lidskog and Elander, 2010: 32–33; Toke, 2013), and to influence media coverage related to climate change (Schmidt et al, 2013). Of the non-Western countries, only Singapore shows a notable focus on energy security.…”

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Securitization of media reporting on climate change? A cross-national analysis in nine countries

2015

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Security implications of climate change have been highlighted by various political and advisory bodies, as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs), in recent years. It is unclear, however, whether such a ‘securitization’ of climate change can also be found beyond institutionalized politics in the public realm, and beyond Western countries. This article addresses these questions by investigating mass media coverage in nine countries over a period of 15 years. Based on an analysis of more than 101,000 newspaper articles, it shows an increasing discussion of climate change in security terms, with diverging trends in the analysed countries. While Western, industrialized countries such as the USA, the UK or Australia display an increasing securitization of climate change, the amount of securitizing language has decreased in India and South Africa. Moreover, different countries refer to different security dimensions – with regard both to the subjects whose security is of concern (national security, human security) and to the type of resources that are discussed in security terms (energy security, water security, food security). While Western countries strongly focus on national security and energy security, emerging economies place greater emphasis on food and, less pronounced, on water security.

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Climate change and the nuclear securitisation of UK energy policy

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

From conflict to resilience? Explaining recent changes in climate security discourse and practice

From conflict to resilience? Explaining recent changes in climate security discourse and practice

Understanding the Intensity of UK Policy Commitments to Nuclear Power

Securitization of media reporting on climate change? A cross-national analysis in nine countries

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