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I work as a consultant for the United Nations on issues relating to the climate change, environmental mainstreaming, and humanitarian action.
My background is an MSc. in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation from Lund Universty, Sweden, and a B.A. in International Relations and Human Rights.
My research interests include societal resilience, environmental/climate governance, social constructivism, and social justice
Address: Lund, Skåne, Sweden
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Anthropogenic climate change, and the environmental harms it entails, has become one of the most ... more Anthropogenic climate change, and the environmental harms it entails, has become one of the most complex challenges of our time. Climate change is capable of severely undermining a person‟s ability to lead a dignified and good life. Thus, climate change creates conditions of social injustice, which require our urgent attention. This thesis argues for the introduction of a new environmental human right in response to these social injustices. In doing so, I strongly build on Martha Nussbaum‟s capabilities approach, with Breena Holland‟s addition of the „environmental meta-capability.‟ I utilize the environmental meta-capability to derive a human right to a safe and healthy environment, and show why human rights should be part of protecting human capabilities. I argue that the human right to a safe and healthy environment can be justified as it is a crucial element of „capability protection‟ for a person‟s environmental meta-capability, which, in turn, is necessary for establishing minimum conditions of social justice.
In recent years climate change has been featured much more prominently in scholarly and public di... more In recent years climate change has been featured much more prominently in scholarly and public discourse. Especially since 2003 and 2007 the focus has shifted towards the security implications of climate change and the necessary measures to deal with climate change. The discourse commonly portrays climate change as a threat that substantially affects national and human security. Using frameworks of the Copenhagen School and Paris School, as well as discourse analysis, this thesis shows that climate change as a security issue is mainly understood in human security terms and seen to exacerbate already existing problems, such as poverty and food insecurity. The social and discursive construction of climate change as a security issue has influenced the policies and practices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as well as the United Nations Development Programme, as it has become a central element of their work. It is argued that the Paris School‟s climatization framework has more analytical value for the security analysis of climate change than the Copenhagen School‟s securitization theory.
Anthropogenic climate change, and the environmental harms it entails, has become one of the most ... more Anthropogenic climate change, and the environmental harms it entails, has become one of the most complex challenges of our time. Climate change is capable of severely undermining a person‟s ability to lead a dignified and good life. Thus, climate change creates conditions of social injustice, which require our urgent attention. This thesis argues for the introduction of a new environmental human right in response to these social injustices. In doing so, I strongly build on Martha Nussbaum‟s capabilities approach, with Breena Holland‟s addition of the „environmental meta-capability.‟ I utilize the environmental meta-capability to derive a human right to a safe and healthy environment, and show why human rights should be part of protecting human capabilities. I argue that the human right to a safe and healthy environment can be justified as it is a crucial element of „capability protection‟ for a person‟s environmental meta-capability, which, in turn, is necessary for establishing minimum conditions of social justice.
In recent years climate change has been featured much more prominently in scholarly and public di... more In recent years climate change has been featured much more prominently in scholarly and public discourse. Especially since 2003 and 2007 the focus has shifted towards the security implications of climate change and the necessary measures to deal with climate change. The discourse commonly portrays climate change as a threat that substantially affects national and human security. Using frameworks of the Copenhagen School and Paris School, as well as discourse analysis, this thesis shows that climate change as a security issue is mainly understood in human security terms and seen to exacerbate already existing problems, such as poverty and food insecurity. The social and discursive construction of climate change as a security issue has influenced the policies and practices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as well as the United Nations Development Programme, as it has become a central element of their work. It is argued that the Paris School‟s climatization framework has more analytical value for the security analysis of climate change than the Copenhagen School‟s securitization theory.