Melting ice and the macrosecuritization of climate change

Exploring the scales of climate change macrosecuritization through the Greenland ice sheet How has one of the biggest frozen freshwater volumes in the world – the Greenland ice sheet – come to be seen as both a threat to coastal communities across the planet and as a threat to itself? By employing the concept of macrosecuritization (Buzan & Wæver 2009), Kristian Søby Kristensen and Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard show that the global or planetary threat of climate change has important structuring effects on how the Greenland ice sheet comes to be perceived as a threat, both locally and in areas of the globe, which are geographically distant to it.