
Convergence
Climate Change and Geopolitical Futures
Agenda Publishing
Will be published approx. on 31. July 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-78821-939-6 (ISBN)
Description
Competing visions of the future are at the heart of debates on climate change. The daunting scale and characteristics of climate risks have led to terrifying prophesies of societal breakdown and escalating geopolitical flashpoints. Although these cannot be ignored, the same characteristics can intersect to heighten the potential for "convergence points", in which cooperation and transformation are catalysed by shared risks and recognition of mutual vulnerability. In navigating between entrenched geopolitical logics and transformative possibilities, this book provides readers with a vocabulary and a framework for assessing climate risk in ways that are both critical and creative; rooted in current structures but not limited by them. Thinking about climate futures, the authors show, means embracing radically different possibilities and seeing the world as it is (and the forces that have produced present realities), while remaining open to the possibility of it becoming otherwise.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Edinburgh University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78821-939-6 (9781788219396)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Duraid Jalili is Senior Lecturer in Security and Environment at King's College London. Hillary Briffa is Senior Lecturer in National Security Studies at King's College London. Maeve Ryan is Reader in History and Foreign Policy at King's College London.
Author
Senior Lecturer in National Security Studies EducationKing's College London
Content
1. Introduction: flashpoints and convergence points in a time of "everything change"
2. Methods for understanding climate insecurity
3. Norms, knowledge and ideologies
4. Health and wellbeing
5. Resources, supply chains and political economies
6. Place and mobility
7. Technology and innovation
8. Epilogue
2. Methods for understanding climate insecurity
3. Norms, knowledge and ideologies
4. Health and wellbeing
5. Resources, supply chains and political economies
6. Place and mobility
7. Technology and innovation
8. Epilogue