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Sustainable development as a concept has captured well the coupling of nature and society. The close, complex and intertwined relationship between nature and society and this relationship’s essentiality for both human and environmental security is well de ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through the concepts of empowerment and agency we discuss how human security can be used to study and illustrate practices of agents of security in the life-world. Drawing upon feminist international relations studies and a bottom-up perspective of security we ask; Who are agents of security and what are their practices of security? The tendency to locate human security in the global south is challenged and the gaze is instead directed at the north by using as empirical examples non-state crisis centres for women in Russia and indigenous women in the Arctic Council. The agency of these actors and their varied possibilities of and ways to practice security are discussed. The application of the concepts empowerment and agency to the practices of these agents of security illustrates the usefulness and weaknesses of the concepts for the human security discussion by demonstrating how agents are both dominated and empowered. This analytical operationalization and application of human security to a northern context aims also to inspire use of the concept for varied research areas in different geographical spaces. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainable development as a concept has captured well the coupling of nature and society. The close, complex and intertwined relationship between nature and society and this relationship’s essentiality for both human and environmental security is well de ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]