Climate change and gender security, implications for a HUGE security

Abstract

Thousands of years of violent patriarchal exploitation of humans and nature have produced a new era of Earth history: the Anthropocene, where climate change, disasters, and complex emergencies are producing tipping points on Earth processes. In this new political arena, we humans are at the same time victims and victimizers with our present consumerist behaviour and the massive emissions of fossil greenhouse gases. The dominant military-political security agenda has not adapted to these new realities and can’t offer protection from upcoming threats. Therefore, this chapter asks how we may achieve a widened and deepened understanding of human, gender and environmental: a HUGE-security agenda suggests both an analytical and a policy tool. However, gender and human security are silenced by interests of the dominant androgenic military-political international and national security discourse. Environmental security has emerged recently related to impacts of climate change, water scarcity and the massive loss of biodiversity.