This research is a contribution to feminist scholarship on the interrelationships among climate change, gender, and security. In spite of the obvious threats that climate change poses to both the natural environment and human security, states of the world have been slow to react. What political and economic interests and cultural values are preventing the international community from addressing this important issue in an effective way?

This overarching question is explored through three research questions, in which a case study approach in one Arctic state - Iceland - is used to explore climate change impact, policy discourses, and the values underpinning those discourses. A feminist social constructivist perspective is employed, through which concepts from feminism and gender studies are used as analytical tools.