Constructing climate change rentierism in Jordan

El-Anis, I ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6918-4544 and Poberezhskaya, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6442-5292, 2024. Constructing climate change rentierism in Jordan. Environmental Politics. ISSN 0964-4016

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Abstract

Jordan is exceptionally vulnerable to climate change and has limited adaptive capacities. It is also a non-democratic state with an ubiquitous role for the monarchy that results in narratives that seek to promote the regime’s stability by securing external support in the form of ‘rents’. In this paper we examine how the government ‘rents out’ Jordan’s stability and its engagement with climate change initiatives to the international community through its unintentional use of fearmongering. Jordan’s vulnerability narrative, in particular, highlights its stabilising role in regional affairs (e.g. by hosting refugees from neighbouring countries) and attracts the support of external actors interested in its stability. While rent-seeking behaviour could serve as a short-term solution to the imminent threats imposed by climate change, it can also reinforce authoritarianism and divert attention away from long-term sustainable adaptation and mitigation activities.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Environmental Politics
Creators:	El-Anis, I. and Poberezhskaya, M.
Publisher:	Routledge
Date:	14 November 2024
ISSN:	0964-4016
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/09644016.2024.2427527 DOI 2288936 Other
Rights:	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	19 Nov 2024 16:35
Last Modified:	19 Nov 2024 16:35
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52618

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