Converging on Disaster: Climate Security and the Malthusian Anticipatory Regime for Africa

@article{Hartmann2014ConvergingOD,  title={Converging on Disaster: Climate Security and the Malthusian Anticipatory Regime for Africa},  author={Betsy Hartmann},  journal={Geopolitics},  year={2014},  volume={19},  pages={757 - 783},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143980126}}
  • B. Hartmann
  • Published2 October 2014
  • Environmental Science, Political Science
  • Geopolitics
Malthus’s privileging of population growth as the main cause of poverty, scarcity and war still resonates widely in both the public policy arena and popular culture. It shapes dominant discourses about the relationship between climate change, conflict and security in Africa. This article examines what I call the Malthusian Anticipatory Regime for Africa (MARA). MARA represents the convergence of current international strategies for reducing high fertility in sub-Saharan Africa through long… 

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