Securitising Sustainability? Questioning the 'Water, Energy and Food-Security Nexus'
The water, energy and food-security nexus approach put forward by the Bonn2011 Conference highlights the need for an integrative approach towards issues of water, energy and food, and puts them under a general framework of security. While acknowledging the need for urgent solutions in terms of susta...
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| description | The water, energy and food-security nexus approach put forward by the Bonn2011 Conference highlights the need for an integrative approach towards issues of water, energy and food, and puts them under a general framework of security. While acknowledging the need for urgent solutions in terms of sustainability, the nexus approach, at the same time, makes a normative claim to tackle the needs of the poorest parts of the world population. A closer look at the underlying rationales and proposed policy instruments, however, suggests that the primary scope of the conference proceedings is not a normative one, but one that reframes the conflict between distributional justice and the needs of the world economy under the paradigm of security. Reading this slightly shifted perspective through a Foucauldian lens, we propose that security is now put forward as the key mechanism to foster a new 'green' economy, and that the needs of the poorest are, if anything at all, a secondary effect of the proposed nexus approach. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1f7832b243cd4c09bf2b60f11bfc10582022-12-22T00:20:26ZengWater Alternatives AssociationWater Alternatives1965-01751965-01752015-02-0181695709Securitising Sustainability? Questioning the 'Water, Energy and Food-Security Nexus'Matthias Leese0Simon Meisch1International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, GermanyInternational Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, GermanyThe water, energy and food-security nexus approach put forward by the Bonn2011 Conference highlights the need for an integrative approach towards issues of water, energy and food, and puts them under a general framework of security. While acknowledging the need for urgent solutions in terms of sustainability, the nexus approach, at the same time, makes a normative claim to tackle the needs of the poorest parts of the world population. A closer look at the underlying rationales and proposed policy instruments, however, suggests that the primary scope of the conference proceedings is not a normative one, but one that reframes the conflict between distributional justice and the needs of the world economy under the paradigm of security. Reading this slightly shifted perspective through a Foucauldian lens, we propose that security is now put forward as the key mechanism to foster a new 'green' economy, and that the needs of the poorest are, if anything at all, a secondary effect of the proposed nexus approach.http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol8/v8issue1/272-a8-1-5/filesustainabilitynexussecuritisationgreen economydevelopment |
| spellingShingle | Matthias Leese Simon Meisch Securitising Sustainability? Questioning the 'Water, Energy and Food-Security Nexus' Water Alternatives sustainability nexus securitisation green economy development |
| title | Securitising Sustainability? Questioning the 'Water, Energy and Food-Security Nexus' |
| title_full | Securitising Sustainability? Questioning the 'Water, Energy and Food-Security Nexus' |
| title_fullStr | Securitising Sustainability? Questioning the 'Water, Energy and Food-Security Nexus' |
| title_full_unstemmed | Securitising Sustainability? Questioning the 'Water, Energy and Food-Security Nexus' |
| title_short | Securitising Sustainability? Questioning the 'Water, Energy and Food-Security Nexus' |
| title_sort | securitising sustainability questioning the water energy and food security nexus |
| topic | sustainability nexus securitisation green economy development |
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