Selin in El Mercurio on Climate Change in Latin America
Henrik Selin, Director of Curricular Innovation and Initiatives and Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed for an article examining the current security threat climate change poses to Latin America.
Selin was quoted in an August 4, 2017 article in El Mercurio entitled “Climate Change is Seen as the Greatest Security Threat in Latin America.“
From the text of the article:
“People are experiencing real changes where they live, which scientists in many cases find consistent with human-induced climate change: the rise in average temperatures, more dangerously hot days, more extreme weather phenomena – such as floods, hurricanes and high-intensity typhoons – changing precipitation patterns and rising sea levels, “Henrik Selin, an environmental policy expert at Boston University, told El Mercurio. “This has begun to change people’s perception of climate change, from a distant issue to something happening here and now, affecting both their lives and national security.”
Henrik Selin conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. His most recent book is EU and Environmental Governance, by Routledge Press, and is also the author of Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management by MIT Press.