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Handbook on the geopolitics of sustainability /

"This Handbook brings together more than 60 leading researchers from diverse academic disciplines to examine the complex and evolving intersection between geopolitics and sustainability. The result is a timely exploration of how sustainability challenges reshape geopolitics and how geopolitics,...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing
Other Authors: Linnér, Björn-Ola (Editor), Bennich, Therese (Editor), Carlsen, Henrik (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2026]
Subjects:
Sustainable development.
Geopolitics > 21st century.
Climatic changes.
Développement durable.
Géopolitique > 21e siècle.
Climat > Changements.
sustainable development.
climate change.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Introduction
  • The geopolitics of sustainability : an introduction / Björn-Ola Linnér, Therese Bennich, Henrik Carlsen
  • Contextualizing Anthropocene geopolitics / Simon Dalby
  • Part II: Rethinking geopolitics on an altered earth
  • Ecological security / Rod Schoonover and Dan Smith
  • Geopolitics of biodiversity / Zühre Aksoy
  • Food and security : bridging contradictory pursuits / Jiayi Zhou
  • Planetary vs international security : economic growth at the crossroads / Olivia Lazard
  • Ontological insecurity and climate denial / Beatriz Rodrigues Bessa Mattos and Camila Amorim Jardim
  • Part III: A shifting energy landscape
  • Fossil fuel incumbency / Peter Newell, Lukas Slothuus, Freddie Daley and Daniela Soto Hernández
  • Geopolitics of critical raw material supply constraints / André Månberger
  • Part IV: Demographic and migration dynamics
  • The geopolitics of the demographic transition / Richard Jackson
  • The geopolitics of migration : exploring the potential for synergies between migration and sustainable development / Sarah Redicker and W. Neil Adger
  • Part V: Techno-economic drivers
  • Geopolitical implications of the AI life cycle : looking under the hood & hype / Somya Joshi, William Babis, Emily Ghosh and Anisha Nazareth
  • Digital persona and transnational regulation of cyberspace / Nina Teresa Kiderlin and Shirin Barol
  • The geopolitics of AI in global environmental governance / Marie Francisco and Fredrik Heintz
  • Navigating the transformation of built seascapes : security tensions and the role of digitization in offshore monitoring / Karina Barquet, Hans Liwång and Torsten Linders
  • Part VI: Reimagining world affairs
  • The geopolitics of legitimacy in global environmental governance / Lisa Dellmuth and Adis Dzebo
  • Military organizations and climate security : NATO after Russia's invasion of Ukraine / Niklas Bremberg and and Rickard Söder
  • The peace-sustainability nexus : charting a research agenda in the Anthropocene / Dahlia Simangan
  • Geopolitics of large ocean states and the sustainability challenge / Michelle Mycoo
  • Ecocide in international law : a geopolitical perspective / Rinata Kazak
  • Geopolitics of water agreements : cooperation, conflict, justice, and peace / Kyungmee Kim, Stefan Döring, Maria Båld, Stacy D. VanDeveer and Ashok Swain
  • Part VII: Planetary equity in global governance
  • Facing the planetary in critical security studies / Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel-- Rethinking environmental sustainability and SDGs from Indigenous perspectives / Ranjan Datta and Jebunnessa Chapola
  • The geopolitics of climate finance / Katherine Browne and Aaron Maltais
  • Climate justice activism and the populist challenge to global environmentalism / Eva Lövbrand, Alejandro Esguerra and Henrike Knappe
  • Part VIII: Methods and frameworks for researching the geopolitics of sustainability
  • Long-term thinking in geopolitical analysis and sustainability : a comparative reading / Henrik Carlsen
  • The concept of risk in geopolitics / Tom Logan, Ivan Villaverde Canosa and Kendrick Hardaway
  • Transboundary climate risk and global food supply chains as a geopolitical challenge / Johanna Hedlund
  • Systems approaches to the geopolitics of sustainability : a focus on land / Richard King and Tim Benton
  • Researching the geopolitics of sustainability : opportunities and limitations of artificial intelligence / Sophia Hatz and Nina von Uexkull
  • Climate change modelling and international relations : in pursuit of an integrated, long-term research agenda / Jonathan D. Moyer and Collin J. Meisel
  • Producing sustainability as a security problem / Maria Jernnäs, Judith Nora Hardt and Alva Linnér.