Environmental security as a source of non-state legitimacy: An analysis of corporate governance

IF 4.4 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Julianne Liebenguth
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Abstract

Environmental security concepts are shaping the contours of global environmental governance. Although many scholars have analyzed the emergence of environmental security agendas within state agencies and intergovernmental organizations, greater understanding of how environmental security debates traverse transnational, non-state politics is needed to provide a fuller view of environmental security as a globally contested concept. Therefore, this paper examines how transnational corporations (TNCs) leverage and generate ideas about environmental security on a cross-border scale. Specifically, I explore the ways three TNCs —BP, Nutrien, and Veolia—turn to environmental security as a source of legitimacy in their broader global environmental governance agendas. I find that these TNCs rely on particular notions of environmental security to validate their roles in filling governance gaps, promoting democratic principles, and mitigating planetary crisis, particularly to appease a primarily Western, elite audience. Ultimately, I reveal how environmental security concepts inform non-state legitimacy claims and advocate for a political economic perspective for understanding the wider implications of environmental security as a power-laden concept.

作为非国家合法性来源的环境安全:对公司治理的分析
环境安全理念正在塑造全球环境治理的轮廓。虽然许多学者已经分析了国家机构和政府间组织中环境安全议程的出现,但需要对环境安全辩论如何跨越跨国、非国家政治有更深入的了解,才能更全面地了解环境安全作为一个全球争议的概念。因此,本文研究跨国公司如何在跨境范围内影响和产生环境安全理念。具体而言,我将探讨三家跨国公司(bp、Nutrien和威立雅)如何将环境安全作为其更广泛的全球环境治理议程的合法性来源。我发现这些跨国公司依靠特定的环境安全概念来证明他们在填补治理空白、促进民主原则和缓解全球危机方面的作用,特别是为了安抚主要是西方的精英观众。最后,我揭示了环境安全概念如何为非国家合法性主张提供信息,并倡导从政治经济学的角度来理解环境安全作为一个充满权力的概念的更广泛含义。
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