Environment and National Security: Exploring Policy ‘Demand Signals’ and the Science Response
Overview
The project ‘Environment and National Security: Exploring Policy ‘Demand Signals’ and the Science Response’ is a new Agile Initiative Sprint. The Agile Initiative is a demand-led programme of research activities that informs environmental policy and situated within the Oxford Martin School. This particular sprint addresses knowledge needs in organisations such as the Home Office; the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; the Ministry of Defence; the Met Office; the Environment Agency, the Climate Change Committee; and Natural England.
The project consists of multiple workstreams, and one of these is focused on the relationships between climate mobilities and national security in the UK. Climate mobilities are understood as international climate-related migration of people to the UK, domestic climate-related migration of people, and the more-than-human mobilities of plants, animals and diseases towards the UK that are related to climate change. Tim Schwanen is co-leading the workstream, together with Professor Michael Keith at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society.
Outputs
The project will produce a Policy Primer on climate mobilities and a broader Forward Looking Research Agenda with a section on climate mobilities.
In brief
In brief
Duration
April - June 2026
Funder
Oxford Martin School
Partners
Prof Michael Keith (COMPAS), Dr Jin-ho Chung (ODID), Oxford Martin School
Principal Investigator & Contact
Prof Tim Schwanen
