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- Title
Securitising Sustainability? Questioning the 'Water, Energy and Food-Security Nexus'.
- Authors
Leese, Matthias; Meisch, Simon
- Abstract
The water, energy and food-security nexus approach put forward by the Bonn2011 Conference highlights the need for an integrative approach towards issues of water, energy and food, and puts them under a general framework of security. While acknowledging the need for urgent solutions in terms of sustainability, the nexus approach, at the same time, makes a normative claim to tackle the needs of the poorest parts of the world population. A closer look at the underlying rationales and proposed policy instruments, however, suggests that the primary scope of the conference proceedings is not a normative one, but one that reframes the conflict between distributional justice and the needs of the world economy under the paradigm of security. Reading this slightly shifted perspective through a Foucauldian lens, we propose that security is now put forward as the key mechanism to foster a new 'green' economy, and that the needs of the poorest are, if anything at all, a secondary effect of the proposed nexus approach.
- Subjects
SUSTAINABILITY; WATER security; FOOD security; ENERGY security; SUSTAINABLE development
- Publication
Water Alternatives, 2015, Vol 8, Issue 1, p695
- ISSN
1965-0175
- Publication type
Article