The Secure and the Dispossessed

Nick Buxton is Communications Manager for TNI. He has edited a number of books including State of Power (TNI, 2015) and The Secure and the Dispossessed (Pluto, 2015). Ben Hayes has worked for the civil liberties organisation Statewatch since 1996, specialising in security, policing and counter-terrorism policy. He now works as an independent researcher and consultant and is a Fellow of the Transnational Institute. He is the co-editor of The Secure and the Dispossessed (Pluto, 2015).

List of Figures and Boxes


Acknowledgements


Foreword by Susan George


Introduction: Security for Whom in a Time of Climate Crisis? - Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes


Part I: The Security Agenda


1. The Catastrophic Convergence: Militarism, Neoliberalism and Climate Change - Christian Parenti


2. Colonising the Future: Climate Change and International Security Strategies - Ben Hayes


3. Climate Change Inc.: How TNCs are Managing Risk and Preparing to Profit in a World of Runaway Climate Change - Oscar Reyes


Part II: Security for Whom?


4. A Permanent State of Emergency: Civil Contingencies, Risk Management and Human Rights - Nafeez Ahmed, Ben Hayes and Nick Buxton


5. From Refugee Protection to Militarised Exclusion: What Future for ‘Climate Refugees’? - Ben Hayes, April Humble and Steve Wright


6. The Fix Is In: (Geo)engineering Our Way out of the Climate Crisis? - Kathy Jo Wetter and Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group


7. Greenwashing Death: Climate Change and the Arms Trade- Mark Akkerman


Part III: Acquisition through Dispossession


8. Sowing Insecurity: Food and Agriculture in a Time of Climate Crisis - Zoe W. Brent, Nick Buxton and Annie Shattuck


9. In Deep Water: Confronting the Climate and Water Crises - Mary Ann Manahan


10. Power to the People: Rethinking 'Energy Security' - The Platform Collective


Conclusion: Finding Security in a Climate-Changed World - Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes


Notes on Contributors


Index