Human security, climate change and social resilience

Abstract

This chapter examines the value of a human security approach to climate security in the context of debates about non-traditional security. It explores not just the human insecurities that are generated by climate change, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific, but examines how human security models provide different ways of interpreting climate conflict �triggers�, and different and more effective strategies for responding to climate insecurity. This involves an analytical move from risk to vulnerability and a strategic move from mitigation to adaptation and social resilience. Despite the challenges that this presents for more orthodox approaches to non-traditional security, it is also more certain to deliver outcomes that can guarantee security for both people and for states.