Beschreibung:
The nexus approach, conceptualized as attention to resource connections and their governance ramifications, calls attention to the sustainability of contemporary consumer resource use, lifestyles and supply chains. This book sets out an analytical framework for understanding these nexus issues and the related governance challenges and opportunities.
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