El cambio climático: un caso de securitización exitosa del medio ambiente/Climate change: a case of successful environmental securitization

• Published in: Relaciones internacionales (Madrid) no. 34; p. 31
• Main Author: Claro, María Francisca Casado
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Madrid Relaciones Internacionales 01-02-2017
• Subjects: Climate change; Environment; International relations; National security
• ISSN: 1699-3950
• DOI: 10.15366/relacionesinternacionales2017.34.002

In the early 1980s, environmental security was not part of the international security studies mainstream, where it is nowadays firmly grounded. Both from the point of view of practice and theory, environmental security continues to be developed. From being considered a source of controversy or an aggravating factor of pre-existing conflicts or conditions, environmental security is today a first-order subject where existential concerns, such as climate change at the time of the Anthropocene, are addressed. This article begins with a revision of the concept of environmental security. With the aim of analyzing the successful securitization of climate change by the international community, it looks at the analytical framework of the Copenhagen School and its application to the environmental security sector.