ABSTRACT

Almost every January we observe a nearly annual ritual of running and reading stories in major media outlets, government reports, and science blogs declaring the previous year to be either the hottest on record, globally, or among the warmest. Add to this common story those on topics such as weather volatility, record high local temperatures, Arctic sea ice levels, glacial and Antarctic icecap retreat, and a picture of popular coverage of our changing climate begins to emerge. Less covered on page one of major newspapers or the nightly news is the steadily growing concern among security analysts and scientists from many disciplines about the myriad links between climate change and national, international, local, and human security. To such concerns we must now add – and integrate – the resource nexus approach and the governance challenges it presents.