Handbook on the Geopolitics of Sustainability

Edited by Björn-Ola Linnér, Professor, Department of Thematic Studies - Environmental Change, Linköping University, Therese Bennich, Research Fellow and Henrik Carlsen, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden

• ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION1 The geopolitics of sustainability: an introduction 2Björn-Ola Linnér, Therese Bennich and Henrik Carlsen2 Contextualizing Anthropocene geopolitics 22Simon DalbyPART II RETHINKING GEOPOLITICS ON AN ALTERED EARTH3 Ecological security 37Rod Schoonover and Dan Smith4 Geopolitics of biodiversity 49Zühre Aksoy5 Food and security: bridging contradictory pursuits 60Jiayi Zhou6 Planetary vs international security: economic growth at the crossroads 72Olivia Lazard7 Ontological insecurity and climate denial 85Beatriz Rodrigues Bessa Mattos and Camila Amorim JardimPART III A SHIFTING ENERGY LANDSCAPE8 Fossil fuel incumbency 95Peter Newell, Lukas Slothuus, Freddie Daley and Daniela Soto Hernández9 Geopolitics of critical raw material supply constraints 106André MånbergerPART IV DEMOGRAPHIC AND MIGRATION DYNAMICS10 The geopolitics of the demographic transition 120Richard Jackson11 The geopolitics of migration: exploring the potential for synergies betweenmigration and sustainable development 131Sarah Redicker and W. Neil AdgerPART V TECHNO-ECONOMIC DRIVERS12 Geopolitical implications of the AI life cycle: looking under the hood &hype 145Somya Joshi, William Babis, Emily Ghosh and Anisha Nazareth13 Digital persona and transnational regulation of cyberspace 156Nina Teresa Kiderlin and Shirin Barol14 The geopolitics of AI in global environmental governance 167Marie Francisco and Fredrik Heintz15 Navigating the transformation of built seascapes: security tensions and therole of digitization in offshore monitoring 179Karina Barquet, Hans Liwång and Torsten Linders16 The geopolitics of legitimacy in global environmental governance 192Lisa Dellmuth and Adis DzeboPART VI REIMAGINING WORLD AFFAIRS17 Military organizations and climate security: NATO after Russia’s invasionof Ukraine 204Niklas Bremberg and Rickard Söder18 The peace–sustainability nexus: charting a research agenda in theAnthropocene 216Dahlia Simangan19 Geopolitics of large ocean states and the sustainability challenge 227Michelle Mycoo20 Ecocide in international law: a geopolitical perspective 239Rinata Kazak21 Geopolitics of water agreements: cooperation, conflict, justice, and peace 251Kyungmee Kim, Stefan Döring, Maria Båld, Stacy D. VanDeveer andAshok SwainPART VII PLANETARY EQUITY IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE22 Facing the planetary in critical security studies 264Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel23 Rethinking environmental sustainability and SDGs from Indigenousperspectives 276Ranjan Datta and Jebunnessa Chapola24 The geopolitics of climate finance 289Katherine Browne and Aaron Maltais25 Climate justice activism and the populist challenge to globalenvironmentalism 301Eva Lövbrand, Alejandro Esguerra and Henrike KnappePART VIII METHODS AND FRAMEWORKS FOR RESEARCHING THEGEOPOLITICS OF SUSTAINABILITY26 Long-term thinking in geopolitical analysis and sustainability: acomparative reading 314Henrik Carlsen27 The concept of risk in geopolitics 325Tom Logan, Ivan Villaverde Canosa and Kendrick Hardaway28 Transboundary climate risk and global food supply chains as a geopoliticalchallenge 338Johanna Hedlund29 Systems approaches to the geopolitics of sustainability: a focus on land 347Richard King and Tim Benton30 Researching the geopolitics of sustainability: opportunities and limitationsof artificial intelligence 360Sophia Hatz and Nina von Uexkull31 Climate change modelling and international relations: in pursuit of anintegrated, long-term research agenda 372Jonathan D. Moyer and Collin J. Meisel32 Producing sustainability as a security problem 383Maria Jernnäs, Judith Nora Hardt and Alva Linnér

‘This important new Handbook brings together outstanding researchers to examine the varied and complicated intersections between global politics and planetary boundaries. While diverse, the wide range of contributions amounts to an overarching provocation to rethink international relations in the face of ongoing ecological collapse.’