ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author uses discourse analysis to explore how existing security and climate change discourses are gendered, and she provides a blueprint for how gender can be fruitfully included in the ways that we understand the concepts of threat, risk, and vulnerability in particular. She argues that while there are possible negative implications of securitizing climate change, a gender-sensitive, feminist environmental security discourse highlights issues of human insecurity and environmental instability in ways that are useful for policy-making. The author speaks to multiple areas of the international relations field, including the sub-fields of security studies and global environmental politics. Security issues and environmental issues have each been the subject of feminist analysis, which highlights how gendered assumptions often result in various sources and manifestations of insecurity for women around the world. There are several key concepts that are recurring in debates about whether and how climate change is a security issue.
