Societal Safety and Security, Climate Change and Sustainable Development (SAM550)

This course uncovers the complex relationship between societal safety/security, climate change, and sustainable development. Emphasis is placed on understanding global food, water, energy, and environmental security dilemmas in light of these linkages.

NB! This is an elective course and may be cancelled if fewer than 10 students are enrolled by 20th August for the autumn semester.

This course focuses on the complex relationship between societal safety/security, climate change, and sustainable development. The course highlights what societal safety/security, climate change, and sustainable development entail and how they mutually affect each other within the global community. Global challenges about food, water, energy, and environmental security within the constraints of climate change will be addressed. In addition, the course also discusses challenges in achieving sustainable development in light of societal safety/security dilemmas. Theoretical and analytical frameworks will be proposed to understand these linkages. Students will gain a greater appreciation of these frameworks to obtain a deeper and better understanding of the relationship between societal safety/security, climate change, and sustainable development, including dilemmas and contradictions between and within these fields, at global and European level.

After completing the course, it is expected that students will have attained the following knowledge, skills, and general competencies:

Knowledge of:

• natural and man-made threats that can pose risks and affect security and vulnerability.
• key concepts in societal safety/security, including risk, hazards, vulnerability, resilience, crises, disasters, and disaster risk reduction (DRR)
• the meaning of diverse security referent objects, more specifically food, water, energy, and environmental security, including climate security
• how societal safety/security, climate change, and sustainable development mutually influence each other
• key dilemmas, uncertainties, and challenges related to societal safety/security, climate change, and sustainable development, particularly considering the food, water, energy, and environmental security nexus

Skills:

• students should be able to analyse and critically relate to various sources of information and use these to structure and formulate social security-related reflections
• students should be able to critically reflect on dilemmas, challenges, uncertainties and linkages between societal safety/security, climate change, and sustainable development
• students should be able to critically reflect on security objects, to develop a better understanding of how societal safety/security, climate change, and sustainable development are problematised in the light of various explanatory analytical frameworks
• students should be able to approach issues of food, water, energy, and environmental security from a nexus perspective, and see these in relation to societal safety/security, climate change, and sustainable development perspective

General competence:

• students should be able to analyse research relevant critical issues related to societal safety/security.
• students should develop an appreciation of how energy, food, water, and environmental security issues raise questions to sustainable development, with important implications for societal safety/security.
• students should master different analytical frameworks to study complex questions related to uncertainties.
• students should become better positioned to engage critically in discussions, reports, and projects concerning societal safety/security, climate change, and sustainable development at global and European level.

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Compulsory exercise

Compulsory assignment with a limited number of words. Students must hand in a written assignment - individually or in a group - which must be approved to gain access to the digital exam on campus.

Duration: 9 weeks

Lectures, seminars, discussions, individual reflectins shared in groups or in plenary.

Open for all master students at UiS (except EVU master's programmes).

Must meet the admission requirements of one of the study programmes the course is open for.

The faculty decides whether early dialogue will be held in all courses or in selected groups of courses. The aim is to collect student feedback for improvements during the semester. In addition, a digital course evaluation must be conducted at least every three years to gather students’ experiences.

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Read the following: pages 21-47 in chapter 2; pages 71-94 in chapter 4; from page 119 until the Logics of Threats and Vulnerabilities on page 126 in chapter 6; the end notes in chapter 6

Book Chapter Societal security in theory and practice Rhinard, Mark, Societal security in theory and practice, Routledge, 22-42, 2021, 22-42, isbn:9780367492922, View online Book Chapter The emergence and development of samfunnssikkerhet in Norway Morsut, Claudia, The emergence and development of samfunnssikkerhet in Norway, Routledge, 68-90, 2021, 68-90, isbn:9780367492922, View online Article Societal Safety: Concept, Borders and Dilemmas Olsen, Odd Einar ; Kruke, Bjørn Ivar ; Hovden, Jan, Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 69-79, Journal of contingencies and crisis management, 2, 15, 2007-06, 69-79, View online Book Sustainability science : managing risk and resilience for sustainable development Becker, Per,, Amsterdam, Netherlands :, Elsevier, 1 online resource (305 p.), 2014.; ©2014, isbn:9780444638083; 0444638083; 9780444627292; 0444627294,

Read the following: pages 21-55 in chapter 3; pages 123-148 in chapter 5

View online Article Environment, economy and society: fitting them together into sustainable development Giddings, Bob ; Hopwood, Bill ; O'Brien, Geoff, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 187-196, Sustainable development (Bradford, West Yorkshire, England), 4, 10, 2002-11, 187-196, View online Article Sustainability and sustainable development: A review of principles and definitions Ruggerio, Carlos Alberto, AMSTERDAM, Elsevier B.V, 147481-147481, The Science of the total environment, 786, 2021-09-10, 147481-147481, View online Article Risk? Crisis? Emergency? Implications of the new climate emergency framing for governance and policy McHugh, Lucy Holmes ; Lemos, Maria Carmen ; Morrison, Tiffany Hope, Hoboken, USA, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, e736-n/a, Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Climate change, 6, 12, 2021-11, e736-n/a, View online Book Chapter Glossary Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Glossary, 2897-2930, 2023-06-22, 2897-2930, View online Article The politicization of climate change: problem or solution? Pepermans, Yves ; Maeseele, Pieter, Hoboken, USA, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 478-485, Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Climate change, 4, 7, 2016-07, 478-485, View online Book Security : A New Framework for Analysis Buzan, Barry, , Wæver, Ole,; de Wilde, Jaap,, Boulder :, Lynne Rienner Publishers , 1 online resource (240 p.), [2022]; ©1998, isbn:1-68585-380-3, View online Website Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development United Nations, 40,

This website is very useful to follow!

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