Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International Journal of Politics and Security (IJPS), cilt.3, sa.2, ss.48-81, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi)
Despite being an oft-used concept within the security studies sub-discipline, environmental security
stands as a controversial term because of diverging interpretations on its meaning. This study aims to
devote a theoretical investigation of the environmental security concept and to provide a descriptive
analysis of its various meanings by reconsidering debates within the security studies research agenda
since the 1980s. The research objective of the study is to understand why the environmental security
concept has such diverging interpretations and to interrogate the relevance of this divergence for the
framing of climate change as a security issue. In this regard, first, it focuses on debates on the
redefinition of the security concept through the 1980swithin discipline and reviews its implications for
the emergence of the environmental security concept. Then it examines controversies over the meaning
of the concept by providing a comparative analysis of the various interpretations of the relationship
between environment and security. The third part discusses the significance of this theoretical
investigation for the framing of climate change as a security issue on the international political
agenda