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Want, Waste or War?: The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water and Minerals book cover

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Want, Waste or War? The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water and Minerals

By Philip Andrews-Speed, Raimund Bleischwitz, Tim Boersma, Corey Johnson, Geoffrey Kemp, Stacy D. VanDeveer Copyright 2015
240 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world’s largest economies with their resource-intensive patterns. The nexus approach, conceptualized as attention to resource connections and their governance ramifications, calls attention to the sustainability of contemporary consumer... Read more

Part 1: Struggling in the Global Resource Nexus 

1. Introduction: Resource Struggles and Hard Choices 

2. Understanding the Resource Nexus 

Part 2: The Three Realms of the Nexus 

3. Managing Markets under Stress 

4. Strategic Interests and Interstate Conflicts 

5. Rethinking Human Security: The Nexus on the Ground 

Part 3: Cases and Controversies 

6. Shale Gas in the US: Games Unchanged? 

7. Climate Change and Security: Follow the Money and the Plans 

8. Gated Globalism: Migration and Borders 

9. Resource Scarcity, Political Outbidding and Potential for Conflict in the Nile River Basin 

10. Nitrogen Fertilizer and Food in the Nexus 

11. Lifestyle Changes and Resource Efficiency: Opportunities to Bend the Curves? 

Part 4: Conclusions 

12. Facing up to the Nexus Challenge: Avoiding Waste, Want and War

Biography

Philip Andrews-Speed is Principal Fellow, Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. 

Raimund Bleischwitz is BHP Billiton Chair in Sustainable Global Resources, University College London (UCL), Institute for Sustainable Resources, London, UK. 

Tim Boersma is Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Energy Security Initiative, Washington, DC, USA. 

Corey Johnson is Associate Professor of political geography, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. 

Geoffrey Kemp is Director of Regional Security Programs, The Center for the National Interest, Washington, DC, USA. 

Stacy D. VanDeveer is a Professor and Department Chair, Department of Political Science, University of New Hampshire, USA.

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