Session 3 of the CEPEL Seminar on Current Research Trends for Young Researchers – January 22, 2024
As part of the “CEPEL Seminar on Current Trends in Social Science Research,” we are pleased to invite you to the third seminar of the 2023–2024 academic year:
On January 22, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Linz Room of Building 3 at the University of Montpellier’s Faculty of Law and Political Science, where we will welcome:
Adrien Estève, a contract lecturer at Sciences Po Strasbourg, for the presentation of his book:
War and Ecology: The Environment and Climate in Defense Policy, PUF, 2022.
The session will be discussed by Jean Joana, University Professor at the University of Montpellier, and Amaury Giraud, Ph.D. in Political Science.
Abstract:
As environmental issues gain prominence in public discourse and climate change is set to have a lasting impact on global balances, this book examines how environmental and climate challenges are being addressed in a sector that has received little attention in the literature on the subject: the defense sector. Having recognized the disastrous long-term impact of modern wars on public health, the environment, and the climate, a number of national and international organizations now seek to adapt legal frameworks and their negotiations on defense and security to take these new environmental concerns into account. In this critical context of risk anticipation, the military plays a central role and legitimately acts as an expert. This book thus demonstrates how environmental and climate issues have been addressed within the defense sector, using the cases of France and the United States as examples.
