Before Climate Change, ‘Nuclear Safety’ Was There:A Retrospective Study and Lessons-Learned of Changing Security Premises in the Arctic
This chapter is about the environment as a special feature of Arctic geopolitics and security. The focus is on (long-range) pollution, as the first trigger of global changes in the Arctic, and ‘environmental awakening’ as a consequent reaction. This is also a retrospective study on ‘nuclear safety’...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Pivot
2019
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| Online Access: | https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/11ab96de-c3e5-4669-a0ac-213b01b53a13 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20230-9 |
| Summary: | This chapter is about the environment as a special feature of Arctic geopolitics and security. The focus is on (long-range) pollution, as the first trigger of global changes in the Arctic, and ‘environmental awakening’ as a consequent reaction. This is also a retrospective study on ‘nuclear safety’ in the European Arctic, as a part of ‘environmental awakening’ and environmental politics in the North, and how it caused a shift in security premises of the Arctic states. Discourses of critical security studies - the risk society theory and ecological security - are applied to broaden our understanding of narrow traditional – national, competitive, military – security towards comprehensive one, as well as to analyze and illustrate changes in both Arctic security nexus and Arctic geopolitics. |
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