Johannes Herbeck

University of Bremen | Uni Bremen · Research Center for Sustainability Studies (artec)

Der Zusammenhang zwischen Flucht und Migration einerseits und klimawandelbedingter Umweltveränderung andererseits wird seit einigen Jahren intensiv diskutiert. Zur Debatte stehen etwa die Stärke des möglichen Zusammenhangs beider Phänomene, das zu erwartende Ausmaß sowie unterschiedliche Begrifflichkeiten und damit verbundene mögliche völkerrechtli...

Archipelagic identities have long patterned Indonesian historic imaginaries, collective memory, and its postcolonial modernist narratives on nation-building. This chapter examines and puts into conversation two distinct and interrelated concepts undergirding archipelagic thinking – ‘Nusantara’ and the lesser studied ‘Tanah Air’ – against speculativ...

Research brief on salient issues and approaches concerning the nexus between climate change and migration.

Significance Statement This chapter puts into conversation two distinct yet interrelated planning visions – Blue Urbanism as a movement in its own right. driven by the overarching promise of more meaningfully reconnecting coastal cities with their marine ecosystems, and Nature-based solutions , with roots in engineering that encompass a broad range...

Drawing on Jakarta, Metro Manila and Singapore as case studies, we explore the paradox of slow political action in addressing subsiding land, particularly along high-density urban coastlines with empirical insights from coastal geography, geodesy analysis, geology, and urban planning. In framing land subsidence as a classic ‘wicked’ policy problem,...

Using the DPSIR (Drivers, Pressures, States, Impacts, and Responses) framework as an analytical lens, this study elucidates how climaterelated hazards, coupled with other drivers and pressures, create vulnerability to disasters for coastal fishing communities in Bangladesh. Primary data has been collected through fieldwork in four communities in th...

A rich corpus of literature exists on traveling knowledges, their carriers, and connectivities. Yet there is less emphasis on how trajectories of mobility themselves, and the knowledges that circulate coevolve in the process of travel. In this article, we propose “epistemic mobilities” as a conceptual lens with which to empirically trace the transf...

The scholarly debate on 'green ports' since it emerged in the policy discourse of international maritime organizations has largely focused on exploring the economic benefits associated with implementing related policies and developing green guides and codes of conduct for port authorities. In contrast, it has received little attention how the green...

This article explores the normalisation of urban flooding through two distinct sets of securitised practices in two Southeast Asian megacities – localised disaster management surveillance regimes and the policing of informal settlements in Metro Manila and northern Jakarta, respectively. As a point of departure, we problematise the question of how...

The search for suitable adaptation pathways to accommodate for rising sea levels resulting from global climate change is an ongoing concern for many megacities in Southeast Asia and beyond. Addressing already existing challenges resulting from land subsidence and increased occurrence of inland flooding, adaptation can take varied forms and cover wi...

Starting from a critical discussion of current arguments and concepts in research on the environment–migration nexus, the article analyses how environmental migration is discussed in the Pacific region. In the first section we provide a short overview of the academic debates on environmental migration and describe their limitations. We suggest that...

At first glance, climate change seems to be in line with paradigm shifts in the social sciences which appeared in the final two decades of the 20th century in the context of the multiple forms and meanings of economic, social and cultural globalisation. Similar to globalisation, climate change appears as a phenomenon that has to be observed and ana...

This dissertation shows the contribution human geography can make to social science research on climate change. The central question is how the conceptialization of space and spatial categories changes in the face of climate change debates. First, a number of traditional spatial registers in human geography (place, region and landscape) are discuss...

Ihre Anerkennung als „normative und epistemische Autoritäten“ (Ecker-Erhard 2007: iv) im internationalen politischen System hat humanitären Organisationen in den letzten Dekaden den Ruf eines moralischen „Weltgewissens“ eingebracht. Für die in diesem Band behandelte Klimabewegung könnten sie also eine wertvolle Ressource darstellen, um die Position...

Based on qualitative fieldwork, this study analyses reasons and outcomes of fishers’ migration in Bangladesh. The results show that fishers’ livelihoods are characterised by a series of vulnerabilities and endemic poverty contributing to their migration decisions. However, fishers also migrate pro-actively to enhance their capacities and explore op...

The emergence of climate change as a key concern of a globalised world has given rise to the use of notions like climate wars and climate refugees. Fuelled by statements of high-ranking politicians and scientific contributions alike, climate change is thereby connected to questions of national and international security. The article sketches main l...

Johannes Herbeck, Michael Flitner, Bremen «We all know: There is a new enemy out there. It presents new threats; it is difficult to detect and respond to. We already know it can strike anywhere and repeatedly, and it has a proven ability to deliver multiple strikes. (…) This enemy is global warming and climate change» (Kraemer 2009: 1).