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This chapter is about the environment as a special feature of Arctic geopolitics and security. The focus is on (long-range) pollution, as the first trigger of global changes in the Arctic, and ‘environmental awakening’ as a consequent reaction. This is also a retrospective study on ‘nuclear safety’ in the European Arctic, as a part of ‘environmental awakening’ and environmental politics in the North, and how it caused a shift in security premises of the Arctic states. Discourses of critical security studies—the risk society theory and ecological security—are applied to broaden our understanding of narrow traditional—national, competitive, military—security towards comprehensive one, as well as to analyze and illustrate changes in both Arctic security nexus and Arctic geopolitics.
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Heininen, L. (2020). Before Climate Change, ‘Nuclear Safety’ Was There—A Retrospective Study and Lessons Learned of Changing Security Premises in the Arctic. In: Heininen, L., Exner-Pirot, H. (eds) Climate Change and Arctic Security. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20230-9_7
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