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Climate Security in the Northern Mediterranean: Threat Scenarios and the Prospects for Resiliency
Climate Security in the Northern Mediterranean: Threat Scenarios and the Prospects for Resiliency

Author(s): Niel Oculi, Mark A. Boyer
Subject(s): Environmental and Energy policy, Security and defense
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: climate change; securitization; climate security; SLR scenarios; Northern Mediterranean

Summary/Abstract: Climate change is transforming everyday around the world. From how we live our daily lives to how we grow our food, where we can build our homes, and even how we protect ourselves and those we love, climate change is forcing us to reconsider long-held beliefs and habits. In this paper, we map and analyze four sea-level-rise (SLR) scenarios for countries in the Northern Mediterranean to explore numerically and visually increasingly likely climate threats to the region. We argue that climate change generates primary (direct), secondary and even tertiary impacts that indicate that securitization has occurred, even if some policy-makers choose to ignore that reality.

  • Issue Year: XVIII/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 163-186
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: English