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Environment and Security

Environment and Security

Published in Association with Environmental Peacebuilding Association

eISSN: 27538796 | ISSN: 27538796 | Current volume: 2 | Current issue: 3 Frequency: Quarterly
Environment and Security is the leading global outlet for peer-reviewed research and debates on issues at the intersection of environment and security. Environment and Security is a quarterly journal that seeks to publish innovative research on the intersections between environmental and security issues, and to inspire debates by decision makers and practitioners. All research published in the journal will engage with and advance existing academic debates on the topic, either through presenting novel empirical findings, through theoretical elaboration, or through insights from practitioners.

Environment and Security is an interdisciplinary, international, peer-reviewed journal. It seeks to publish innovative research on the intersections between environmental and security issues, and to inspire debates by decision makers and practitioners. All research published in the journal will engage with and advance existing academic debates on the topic, either through presenting novel empirical findings, through theoretical elaboration, or through insights from practitioners.

Environment and Security is open to a wide range of topics. We understand the environment to comprise (i) natural resources used by or (potentially) useful to humans, (ii) the ecosystem services sustaining these resources, and (iii) the components of the earth system into which these resources and services are embedded (e.g., climate system, biosphere). We understand security in a wide sense, encompassing international security, national security, human security, ontological security, and securitization, among others, including a wide range of referent objects. The journal will address both violent/armed conflicts as well as social conflicts, incorporating concepts of both positive and negative peace. All contributions clearly speak to current theoretical and/or empirical debates about the environment-security nexus.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Resource scarcity and environmental change as drivers of conflict
  • Climate change, extreme events, and conflict
  • Conflict financing through natural resources
  • Environmental dimensions of peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peacebuilding
  • Environmental conflict resolution and diplomacy
  • Cooperative potential of shared environmental interests
  • Environmental impacts of armed conflict
  • Gender dimensions of environment-security intersections
  • Role of the environment for economic development and human security
  • Environmental justice, human security, and social conflicts
  • Disasters, disaster risk reduction, peace, and conflict
  • Political ecologies of extraction and resource grabbing
  • Environmental and climate-related migration
  • Violence against environmental activists
  • Environmental security discourses and securitization of the environment
  • The peace and conflict aspects of environmental politics and policies

Environment and Security is committed to theoretical and methodological diversity. It welcomes contributions from a wide range of disciplines like political science, international relations, environmental studies, anthropology, economics, geography, law, and sociology. The journal also seeks to enrich interdisciplinary fields like peace and conflict studies, development research, and gender studies, among others. It is open to quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method research designs. We are open to studies using established as well as innovative methods and data sources.

Environment and Security recognises the underrepresentation of scholars from the Global South in the debates outlined above and is hence particularly interested in contributions from these regions.

Editor in Chief
Ashok Swain Uppsala University, Sweden
Editors
Carl Bruch Environmental Law Institute
Tobias Ide Murdoch University
Päivi Lujala University of Oulu
Richard Matthew University of California
Erika Weinthal Duke University
Book Review Editor
Tom Deligiannis Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Editorial Board Members
Saleem Ali University of Delaware
Diana Vela Almeida NTNU
Philippe Le Billon University of British Columbia
Srinjoy Bose University of New South Wales
Kaderi Noagah Bukari University of Cape Coast
Joshua W. Busby University of Texas at Austin
Geoffrey D. Dabelko Ohio University
Marwa Daoudy Georgetown University
Rosaleen Duffy University of Sheffield
Itay Fischhendler Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rita Floyd University of Birmingham, UK
Cullen Hendrix University of Denver
Mirza Huda ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
Bruce Jones Brookings Institution
Vally Koubi ETH Zurich
Florian Krampe Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden
Harry F. Lee Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sethulego Matebesi University of Free State
Patricia Kameri Mbote  
René Nijenhuis UN OCHA
Cesare Scartozzi CGIAR Climate Security Focus
Dahlia Simangan Hiroshima University
Irene Velez-Torres Universidad del Valle
Neda A. Zawahri Cleveland State University
Wang Zhijian Hopkins-Nanjing Center

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