Join us for the launch event of Jan Selby, Gabrielle Daoust and Clemens Hoffmann’s new book, Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security. 

What are the implications of climate change for twenty-first-century conflict and security? Rising temperatures, it is often said, will bring increased drought, more famine, heightened social vulnerability, and large-scale political and violent conflict; indeed, many claim that this future is already with us.

Divided Environments, however, shows that this is mistaken. Focusing especially on the links between climate change, water and security, and drawing on detailed evidence from Israel-Palestine, Syria, Sudan and elsewhere, it shows both that mainstream environmental security narratives are misleading, and that the actual security implications of climate change are very different from how they are often imagined.

Addressing themes as wide-ranging as the politics of droughts, the contradictions of capitalist development and the role of racism in environmental change, while simultaneously articulating an original 'international political ecology' approach to the study of socio- environmental conflicts, Divided Environments offers a new and important interpretation of our planetary future. 

Meet our speaker and chair

Jan Selby is Chair in Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield.  

Michael Mason is Associate Professor of Environmental Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE and Director of the LSE Middle East Centre. 

More about this event

The Department of Geography and Environment (@LSEGeography) is a centre of international academic excellence in economic, urban and development geography, environmental social science and climate change.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #DividedEnvironments