Climate Security and Climate Justice, Recognizing Context in the Sahel
Publisher: Australian Journal of Emergency Management
Author(s): Tor A. Benjaminsen
Date: 2026
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Governance, Renewable Resources
Benjaminsen explores the complex interplay between climate change, security and justice in the Sahel region of West Africa. He emphasises the importance of understanding historical, political and environmental contexts. There are 2 broad issues in the title of this book: climate justice, where climate change is ostensibly the primary agenda, and climate security. The issue of security is about the decline in security brought about by conflict, alongside international migration; both allegedly prompted by climate change. Injustice concerns the unfairness for people who may be the most affected by climate change; very often being the least responsible for causing it.