The Environmental Security Discourse: Why, How and its Implications

Editor's Notes

• #3: This can be an internal threat- civil war- or an external or can also be infectious disease for whom: the country : country From what : military threats, land issues
• #4: Human security complements state security, enhances human rights and strengthens human development. It seeks to protect people against a broad range of threats to individuals and communities and, further, to empower them to act on their own behalf. Freedom from Fear —protecting individuals from violent conflicts while recognizing that these violent threats are strongly associated with poverty, lack of state capacity and other forms of inequities. Freedom from Want — The school advocates a holistic approach in achieving human security and argues that the threat agenda should be broadened to include hunger, disease and natural disasters because they are inseparable concepts in addressing the root of human insecurity and they kill far more people than war, genocide and terrorism combined. [10] Different from "Freedom from Fear", it expands the focus beyond violence with emphasis on development and
• #5: It seems that the environmental language is now saturated by security jargon To be more blunt, it seems that the envi and security high jacked each other October 2003 a report to the Department of Defense (Schwartz and Randall, 2003- from occ -10) . The report recommends that the United States commit ‘‘to a stronger national and international role to help stabilize climate change at levels that will avoid significant disruption to global security and stability’’ (CNA Corporation 2007).
• #6: In form of crime and straggle between groups and rapid urbanization counter argument that Abundance can induce conflicts often because of the looting of the resources is used for buying arms - Reverse causal relationship: security infrastructure such as defense wall that affect the environment or just spending the tax payer money on security instead on the environment- unfortunately in Israel we have them both- can result in severe disagreements between groups Envi threat again can be scarcity such as a drought of abundance such as floods Often causes a common environmental threat that Requires collective action (building a dam., developing a peace park) Here it always asked the question of is it genuine cooperation and peace building or “dressing up dominance as cooperation”
• #9: Based on these premises and nexsus between the env and security mapes were prodiuced
• #10: What resources we often securitize and their nature There are dozens definitions of energy security, but most of them will stress the need for reliable supply.. The storyline is (that has started to develop) during the 1973 oil crisis often securitized the availability of extractive resources particularly oil at an affordable price.or in other words, securing the ability to gap between the incline in the demand to the harm in the supply ability. Otherwise we may face economic recession and some argue that it may lead to political unrest Solution : diversifying the resources portfolio, using less energy and advancing demand management
• #11: Because we can survive without our life supporting system's that are based on things such as the biodiversity and the integrality if our atmosphere. The ozone depilation ad its affect on our public health is often given as an example This existential implications of climate change is in addition to climate change other implications such as to the supply reliability of different resources and to stability of regimes,
• #12: First, it was defined (in the world food conference in 1974) as a world constant supply of basic food products often as a result of raise in the price food in many plaxes in the world. . A During the dacades latter (In the World Food Summit in 1996) its meaning was expanded and included securing the condition which all the people, any time and anywhere have physically and economically accessibility to safety food, nutritious and in sufficient amount to they're dietetic needs and that will provide the basis to healthy and active life (. In other words the shift has changed to the question of entitlement and the ability of the society to provide basic rights Water : the story line is similar of a shift from securing the expensation of the economy to nowadays to the concept of water as the human right that is nowadays promoted by _______ Solution:
• #14: Esesntial : especially energy where is scarcity was often described as a catalyst for political instability Symbols: as symbols for the US insecurity Embelmaic ” the army must be able to expend its training area otherwise it will not be able to meet the new security threats
• #16: The use of security jargon in decision making, politics and the media is not new. Security jargon was already documented to mobilize military decisions, budget and move aside other consideration such as environmental ones. For example, in the decision making process in Israel concerning expedition of a military base located in ecological sensitive areas, security jargon was heavily used. This include classifying the army activity their as 'top secret' and presenting the need for new military infrastructure as a condition for the navy ability to meet war conditions. Often by securitizing the envi discourse what is expected to move the decisions from low to high politics. What is assumed to be an instrument to recruit greater support and budget for the environment This is why often exogenous factors contribute to proliferation of security jargon and idioms used to step aside environmental considerations. For example in the US after, 11 2001 the use of military idioms and considerations in the congress and the White House seems to intensified.
• #18: That are often at a lower scale and profile. Because of this it may foreclose alternative actions Especially if the support for envi issues is gained at low politics as is often the case. In other words we are barking at the wrong tree In other words by brining the heavy artility it can perpetuate the status que and to not put us on the fast track for solution. One example that the literature stress is the climate change policy in the US that although was securitized during the bush administration, was not making and progress. All these cons implies that securitization is by far too blunt instruments to generate adequate policy responses Especially in the US energy security policy because the securitization is a social process, stronger actors with greater influence have better chance to convince the audience about the importance and the acute of they're securitize issue. Security is thus very much a structured field in which some actors are placed in better positions of power what may… . First it is an analytical slippery slope where vetting environmental threats under the logic of the war system we shall soon drain the term security of any meaning.
• #19: De-securitization in the water realm is assumed tends to foster institutional development and manifest as a win-win outcome, which is inherently more conducive for economic growth and hence positive peace (Turton, 2003). It is also assumed to allow parties to engage in benefit sharing (Turton, 2005) which is perceived as a way out of the zero-sum game trap associated with sharing the costs of water at the basin level ( Sadoff and Grey (2005).
• #20: ability to predict who is likely to securitize resources
• #21: Established: in 1992 by the ____following the United Nations Earth Summit different actors (governmental, semi-governmental, NGOs and regional). open forum: where all the actors have a place to express their ideas. At the forum each actor in his turn reads his official statement or statements. Each year: The topics are from a range of sustainable development issues For example: the 15th Commission dealt with Energy for Sustainable Development, Industrial Development, Air Pollution and Climate Change.
• #22: Statements: we focused on the years that were around water (__) and energy(___) since we suspected these resources to be securitized What : energy dependency, relatable supply, regime stability Multi : to identify the parameters that contribute to the securitization process
• #27: Parties: (100% is who declared) Statements: 65 of the statents were Security statements: :
• #28: Little of the securitization jargon relates to typical water scarcity issues In water we securtize:food and prosperity
• #30: Here we take only the statmentw with security
• #31: In energy we securitize- supply and food
• #37: Waterdependence Share of IRWR originating in other countries Agrpop Population in the agricultural sector In terms of identifying what components of water and energy variables affect the use of security jargon, for water it was a higher ratio of withdrawals to resources, a greater dependence on other countries for water supplies, and a higher proportion of population dependent on agriculture
• #38: such as regime stability and conflicts Energy : that is associated with securing economic growth . In wate r:is often associated with securing poverty alleviation
• #42: Land: this is the resource that is essential for the diffent securitizes Context variables : how much the system is democratic, public participation
• #44: There is a cabinet descion to shift to 10% renewable energy
• #45: לומר בעל פה analysis of parliamentary and planning and building committees
• #48: Pay attention that the nevironmtalist can be on both sides
• #52: Politicians raise energy security rhetoric- we can not trust our nirhberioes Business : raise energy security- they need subsidies NGOs raise environmental arguments: some are in favor because the positive affect on the clime while a few are against
• #53: Reconcile between food and energy security Reconclue between all securities (maybe at the expense of certain aspects of energy security which are relatable supply) Allow energy, climate and ___ securities not at the expense of food security (not at the expense of farms)