ABSTRACT

On the one hand, while scientific facts about the security implications of climate change have been far from reliable, the perception of climate change as a security issue seemed to have become more accepted; second, this discursive shift had not yet led to the adoption of exceptional measures at the political level. And as chapter further argued, the one theoretical approach that would be best equipped to explain the first part of the puzzle, the securitization framework of the Copenhagen School, struggles as an explanation when it comes to the second part. These observations made up the starting point for the intellectual and analytical journey undertaken in this book. This macro-securitization at the global level constructs the whole of humanity as a homogeneous social space, which is then governed through a logic of risk and resilience based on the established mechanisms of the UNFCCC.