Thematic Clusters
Environmental risks affect every level of human, national, international and ecological security. How do we categorise these risks? That's up for debate and there are amazing new thinkers challenging our assumptions all the time.
Our thematic clusters try to balance the need to bring experts together to address common challenges, with the need to adapt to ongoing innovation in the way we think about our environmental exposures and vulnerabilities.
Please stick with us as we update this page with more information about the broad range of experts we're bringing together across these themes and the ways in which the themes are evolving.
Politics & International Relations
Analysing the geopolitical implications of climate insecurity (e.g. global governance, interstate competition, state fragility, and diplomacy).
Peace, Conflict & Crisis Management
Exploring the implications of climate shifts for conflict, peacebuilding and disasters, and the organisations charged with responding to these.
Energy & Resource Transitions
Examining shifting trends in availability and control of resources, from food and water, to energy and critical minerals.
Technological Innovation & Access
Evaluating the interactions between climate insecurity and technological development (e.g. R&D, engineering, and solutioneering).
Health & Wellbeing
Understanding the complex interplay between climate shifts and health security, across people, animals and environment (i.e. one health).
Law, Ethics & Justice
Examining the judicial and ethical implications of climate security risks, from personal rights to loss and damage.
Narratives, Ideologies & Social Change
Investigating sectoral and societal responses to climate insecurity (from philosophies to behaviours), and how to influence these.
Trade & Economic Security
Assessing the intersections between climate and economics, from political economy and financial architectures, to trade and debt.
Physical Access and Movement
Examining the intersectional impacts between climate insecurity and shifts in migration patterns and access to different domains.
Mission
Enhancing environmental security through collaboration between security scholars and practitioners.
Contact
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