Handbook on the Geopolitics of Sustainability
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-4253-2 (ISBN)
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Contributing authors analyse topics such as climate change, energy transitions, demographic shifts, digital governance and planetary equity, through the tandem lens of sustainability and geopolitics. They identify critical risks as well as opportunities for positive change. They also present approaches, methodologies, and tools for navigating uncertainty and advancing integrated perspectives, including from systems thinking, risk science, AI-based modelling, critical security studies, and scenario analysis.
This Handbook contributes to the emergence of geopolitics of sustainability as a field in its own right – distinct from the two traditional fields of geopolitical analysis and sustainability science. It further demonstrates that this emerging field has its own dedicated methodologies, conceptual frameworks, empirical focus, institutional spaces, and communities of practice.
This collection is an essential resource for students and scholars in environmental studies, sustainability studies, geopolitics, security studies, international relations, political science, geography, and science and technology studies. The Handbook also offers valuable insights for policymakers and practitioners looking to better understand and navigate the complex dynamics shaping our planetary future.
Edited by Björn-Ola Linnér, Department of Thematic Studies - Environmental Change, Linköping University, Therese Bennich, Research Fellow and Henrik Carlsen, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden
Contents
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 The geopolitics of sustainability: an introduction 2
Björn-Ola Linnér, Therese Bennich and Henrik Carlsen
2 Contextualizing Anthropocene geopolitics 22
Simon Dalby
PART II RETHINKING GEOPOLITICS ON AN ALTERED EARTH
3 Ecological security 37
Rod Schoonover and Dan Smith
4 Geopolitics of biodiversity 49
Zühre Aksoy
5 Food and security: bridging contradictory pursuits 60
Jiayi Zhou
6 Planetary vs international security: economic growth at the crossroads 72
Olivia Lazard
7 Ontological insecurity and climate denial 85
Beatriz Rodrigues Bessa Mattos and Camila Amorim Jardim
PART III A SHIFTING ENERGY LANDSCAPE
8 Fossil fuel incumbency 95
Peter Newell, Lukas Slothuus, Freddie Daley and Daniela Soto Hernández
9 Geopolitics of critical raw material supply constraints 106
André Månberger
PART IV DEMOGRAPHIC AND MIGRATION DYNAMICS
10 The geopolitics of the demographic transition 120
Richard Jackson
11 The geopolitics of migration: exploring the potential for synergies between
migration and sustainable development 131
Sarah Redicker and W. Neil Adger
PART V TECHNO-ECONOMIC DRIVERS
12 Geopolitical implications of the AI life cycle: looking under the hood &
hype 145
Somya Joshi, William Babis, Emily Ghosh and Anisha Nazareth
13 Digital persona and transnational regulation of cyberspace 156
Nina Teresa Kiderlin and Shirin Barol
14 The geopolitics of AI in global environmental governance 167
Marie Francisco and Fredrik Heintz
15 Navigating the transformation of built seascapes: security tensions and the
role of digitization in offshore monitoring 179
Karina Barquet, Hans Liwång and Torsten Linders
16 The geopolitics of legitimacy in global environmental governance 192
Lisa Dellmuth and Adis Dzebo
PART VI REIMAGINING WORLD AFFAIRS
17 Military organizations and climate security: NATO after Russia’s invasion
of Ukraine 204
Niklas Bremberg and Rickard Söder
18 The peace–sustainability nexus: charting a research agenda in the
Anthropocene 216
Dahlia Simangan
19 Geopolitics of large ocean states and the sustainability challenge 227
Michelle Mycoo
20 Ecocide in international law: a geopolitical perspective 239
Rinata Kazak
21 Geopolitics of water agreements: cooperation, conflict, justice, and peace 251
Kyungmee Kim, Stefan Döring, Maria Båld, Stacy D. VanDeveer and
Ashok Swain
PART VII PLANETARY EQUITY IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
22 Facing the planetary in critical security studies 264
Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel
23 Rethinking environmental sustainability and SDGs from Indigenous
perspectives 276
Ranjan Datta and Jebunnessa Chapola
24 The geopolitics of climate finance 289
Katherine Browne and Aaron Maltais
25 Climate justice activism and the populist challenge to global
environmentalism 301
Eva Lövbrand, Alejandro Esguerra and Henrike Knappe
PART VIII METHODS AND FRAMEWORKS FOR RESEARCHING THE
GEOPOLITICS OF SUSTAINABILITY
26 Long-term thinking in geopolitical analysis and sustainability: a
comparative reading 314
Henrik Carlsen
27 The concept of risk in geopolitics 325
Tom Logan, Ivan Villaverde Canosa and Kendrick Hardaway
28 Transboundary climate risk and global food supply chains as a geopolitical
challenge 338
Johanna Hedlund
29 Systems approaches to the geopolitics of sustainability: a focus on land 347
Richard King and Tim Benton
30 Researching the geopolitics of sustainability: opportunities and limitations
of artificial intelligence 360
Sophia Hatz and Nina von Uexkull
31 Climate change modelling and international relations: in pursuit of an
integrated, long-term research agenda 372
Jonathan D. Moyer and Collin J. Meisel
32 Producing sustainability as a security problem 383
Maria Jernnäs, Judith Nora Hardt and Alva Linnér
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cheltenham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 169 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-0353-4253-7 / 1035342537 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-0353-4253-2 / 9781035342532 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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