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The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security (2024)
Journal Article
Hardt, J. N., Jayaram, D., Harrington, C., McLaren, D., Simpson, N. P., Cook, A. D. B., …Estève, A. (2024). The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security. PLoS Climate, 3(4), Article e0000402. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000402

A rapid and widespread institutionalization of climate security is underway, led by powerful states and international organizations. Recognition of the climate crisis by security actors as a serious threat to humanity is long overdue, but it is imper... Read More about The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security.

Introduction: A Framework for Assessing Climate Security (2023)
Book Chapter
Hardt, J. N., Harrington, C., von Lucke, F., Estève, A., & Simpson, N. P. (2023). Introduction: A Framework for Assessing Climate Security. In J. Nora Hardt, C. Harrington, F. von Lucke, A. Estève, & N. P. Simpson (Eds.), Climate Security in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Approaches of United Nations Security Council Member-States (1-23). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26014-8_1

This chapter introduces the book, Climate Security in the Anthropocene—Exploring the Approaches of United Nations Security Council Member-States. Climate change is increasingly positioned as a security issue. A number of influential governance actors... Read More about Introduction: A Framework for Assessing Climate Security.

Climate Change as a “Threat Multiplier”: The Construction of Climate Security by the United Kingdom—2007–2020 (2023)
Book Chapter
Harrington, C. (2023). Climate Change as a “Threat Multiplier”: The Construction of Climate Security by the United Kingdom—2007–2020. In J. Nora Hardt, C. Harrington, F. von Lucke, A. Estève, & N. P. Simpson (Eds.), Climate Security in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Approaches of United Nations Security Council Member-States (297-318). (1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26014-8_14

This chapter examines how the United Kingdom (UK) has framed the issue of climate security and the policies and practices designed in response. Beginning with its 2007 chairing of the inaugural debate on climate security in the United Nations Securit... Read More about Climate Change as a “Threat Multiplier”: The Construction of Climate Security by the United Kingdom—2007–2020.

Climate Security in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Approaches of United Nations Security Council Member-States (2023)
Book
Hardt, J. N., Harrington, C., von Lucke, F., Estève, A., & Simpson, N. P. (Eds.). (2023). Climate Security in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Approaches of United Nations Security Council Member-States. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26014-8

Systematic study of different framings of climate security & policy responses by United Nations Security Council members

Innovative framework & methodology that uses multiple security approaches including traditional, human, and ecological

Case... Read More about Climate Security in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Approaches of United Nations Security Council Member-States.

The eternal return: Imagining security futures at the Doomsday Vault (2022)
Journal Article
Harrington, C. (2023). The eternal return: Imagining security futures at the Doomsday Vault. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 6(4), 2614–2635. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221145365

This article examines how imaginaries of security in the Anthropocene function at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV), otherwise known as the ‘Doomsday Vault’. Recent explorations by scholars of security have suggested that different ways of seeing... Read More about The eternal return: Imagining security futures at the Doomsday Vault.

Law and governance in the Anthropocene (2022)
Journal Article
Woolley, O., & Harrington, C. (2022). Law and governance in the Anthropocene. Global Policy, 13(S3), 5-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13168

This special issue on ‘Law and Governance in the Anthropocene’ brings together scholars from the disciplines of law and international relations to examine the ramifications of the Anthropocene for global governance and international law. The predomin... Read More about Law and governance in the Anthropocene.

Environmental Security and the Anthropocene: Law, Criminology, and International Relations (2018)
Journal Article
Holley, C., Shearing, C., Harrington, C., Kennedy, A., & Mutongwizo, T. (2018). Environmental Security and the Anthropocene: Law, Criminology, and International Relations. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 14, 185-203. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-101317-030945

This article analyzes the implications of the Anthropocene for the governance of security. Drawing on environmental law, green criminology, and international relations, the article examines the development of environmental security scholarship over r... Read More about Environmental Security and the Anthropocene: Law, Criminology, and International Relations.

Posthuman Security and Care in the Anthropocene (2017)
Book Chapter
Harrington, C. (2017). Posthuman Security and Care in the Anthropocene. In C. Eroukhmanoff, & M. Harker (Eds.), Reflections on the posthuman in international relations : the Anthropocene, security and ecology (73-86). E-International Relations

Security in the Anthropocene: Reflections on Safety and Care. (2017)
Book
Harrington, C., & Shearing, C. (2017). Security in the Anthropocene: Reflections on Safety and Care. transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839433379

The belief that »Nature« exists as a blank, stable stage upon which humans act out tragic performances of international relations is no longer tenable. In a world defined by human action, we must reorient our understanding of ourselves, of our enviro... Read More about Security in the Anthropocene: Reflections on Safety and Care..