Anthropocene (in)securities : reflections on collective survival 50 years after the Stockholm Conference

Author(s)

• Eva Lövbrand
• Mobjörk, Malin

Bibliographic Information

Anthropocene (in)securities : reflections on collective survival 50 years after the Stockholm Conference

edited by Eva Lövbrand and Malin Mobjörk

（SIPRI research report, no. 26）

Oxford University Press, 2021

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In June 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden. This event, also known as the Stockholm Conference, was the first of its kind and it reflected mounting concerns with the transboundary environmental problems caused by modern industrial society. Fifty years later, we find ourselves in a world marked by profound, accelerating, and possibly irreversible environmental change. Today, there is simply no place on earth untouched by human influence. The Anthropocene is a concept that has been advanced to capture this novel environmental condition. It refers to an unpredictable and fragile era in planetary history when humanity is dangerously disrupting the earth's biosphere and life-upholding systems. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars and policy experts to examine what security means in this new world of humanity's own making. It asks how global institutions can respond to the systemic production of environmental risks and insecurities, and what political innovations are needed to chart a more sustainable path for global development in the decades to come. The 50-year anniversary of the UN Conference on the Human Environment offers an important backdrop to the volume and an opportunity to imagine constructive ways ahead.

Table of Contents

Jan Eliasson: Foreword 1: Eva Loevbrand, Malin Mobjoerk, and Rickard Soeder: One Earth, Multiple Worlds: Securing Collective Survival on a Human-Dominated Planet Part I: Governing the Environment and Security Nexus: Looking Back, Thinking Ahead 2: Bjoern-Ola Linner and Henrik Selin: Geopolitics and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment 3: Lucile Maertens and Judith Nora Hardt: Climate Change and Security within the United Nations: Insights from the UN Environment Programme and the UN Security Council 4: Marcus D. King, Caitlin Werrell, and Francesco Femia: The Responsibility to Prepare and Prevent: Closing the Climate Security Governance Gaps 5: Dan Smith: The Security Space in the Anthropocene Speech Part II: Reimagining Security in an Entangled World 6: Simon Dalby: To Build a Better World: Securing Global Life After Fossil Fuels 7: Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel: From Human Environment to Post-Human Earth: Troubling the Nature/Culture Divide in the Stockholm Declaration 8: Beatriz Rodrigues Bessa Mattos and Sebastian Granda Henao: Whose Security/Security For Whom? Rethinking the Anthropocene Through Ontological Security Afterword

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Details

• NCID: BC13426615
• ISBN:
  • 9780198787303
• LCCN: 2021427083
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 148 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GF75
  • DC23 : 304.28
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972 : Stockholm, Sweden)
  • LCSH : Nature -- Effect of human beings on
  • LCSH : Security (Psychology)
  • LCSH : Human ecology
  • LCSH : Geology, Stratigraphic -- Anthropocene
  • LCSH : Climatic changes -- Political aspects
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA21136525