Want Waste or War The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land Energy Food Water and Minerals 1st Edition by Philip Andrews-Speed, Raimund Bleischwitz , Tim Boersma, Corey Johnson, Geoffrey Kemp , Stacy D VanDeveer – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery:113878446X ,978-1138784468
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ISBN 10: 113878446X
ISBN 13: 978-1138784468
Author: Philip Andrews-Speed, Raimund Bleischwitz , Tim Boersma, Corey Johnson, Geoffrey Kemp , Stacy D VanDeveer
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 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.
It sheds light on the resource nexus in three realms: markets, interstate relations and local human security. These three realms are the organizing principle of three chapters, before the analysis turns to crosscutting case studies including shale gas, migration, lifestyle changes and resource efficiency, nitrogen fertilizer and food systems, water and the Nile Basin, climate change and security and defense spending. The key issues revolve around competition and conflict over finite natural resources. The authors highlight opportunities to improve both the understanding of nexus challenges and their governance. They critically discuss a global governance approach versus polycentric and multilevel approaches and the lack of those dimensions in many theories of international relations.
Table of contents:
- Part 1 Struggling in the global resource nexus
- 1 Introduction Resource struggles and hard choices
- Forward into the nexus …
- 2 Understanding the Resource Nexus
- The resource nexus approach: understanding challenges and finding opportunities
- So what’s different this time?
- The Anthropocene arrives and ecology fights back
- The global economy
- World politics
- What is scarcity, from a resource nexus perspective?
- On governance: challenges and opportunities
- Three realms of the nexus
- Note
- Part 2 The three realms of the nexus
- 3 Managing Markets Under Stress
- New challenges ahead
- Global trends: more and more demand, slow and uneven decoupling
- Decoupling resource use from economic growth?
- A new market geography
- Information deficits and the lack of transparency
- The new ABCD: accountability, better information, certification and due diligence
- Climate change and environmental policy drivers
- Adjusting market prices and resource efficiency
- Environmental policies 2.0 – power to the people and good governments
- Fragmented markets and the quest for inclusion
- Managing value chains
- Creating ‘green’ sovereign wealth funds
- The cumulated risks if markets failures persist
- Conclusions
- Notes
- 4 Strategic Interests and Interstate Conflicts
- Regional concerns and the emerging environment
- The nexus at sea
- The China Seas
- The Eastern Mediterranean
- Israel
- Cyprus, Israel and Turkey
- The South Atlantic
- Brazil
- Thin ice – the arctic and the nexus
- Melting tundra, greenhouse gas releases and infrastructural impacts
- United States
- Russia
- Norway
- Denmark
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5 Rethinking Human Security The nexus on the ground
- Drivers of local and regional conflict: what’s new?
- Explaining how resources can drive conflict
- Human security and the everyday politics of resource consumption
- What leads people to fight over resources?
- Subsistence crises: ‘famines are not what they used to be’
- ‘Dustbowlification’
- Energy security, energy poverty
- Geography of the nexus on the ground
- Cities, water and food: the future of urban conflict?
- Blue gold
- Weak and failing states: the problem of ‘ungovernable’ spaces
- Biopoverty in a globalized world
- Governance opportunities and human security
- Rethinking security with humans at the fore
- A new Hanseatic League for urban governance
- Establish global sustainable resource facility
- Code of conduct/model agreement on land use and purchase
- Note
- Part 3 Cases and controversies
- 6 Shale Gas in the United States Games unchanged?
- Debating shale gas
- Environmental risks
- Air pollution and putative climate effects of shale gas
- Induced seismic activity
- Shale gas and the nexus
- Governance successes, failures and opportunities
- Research agenda, lessons, conclusions
- Notes
- 7 Climate Change and Security Follow the money and the plans
- Debating climate change and security
- Emergent climate geopolitics
- Strategic basing at sea and on land
- Disaster and military-economic implications
- Climate change and natural disasters
- Permafrost and infrastructure
- Looking forward
- Resource conflicts and local arms races
- Nuclear and hydropower in Asia and the Middle East
- Hydropower
- Conclusion
- 8 Gated Globalism Migration and borders
- Human security and the drive to move: what is known
- Asymmetric wealth distribution between and within states
- Environmental migrants
- Policy responses to international migration
- Wall and fence building
- Virtual securitization of borders
- Borders in cities
- Mobility and the resource nexus
- Gated globalism and mobility governance moving forward
- Mobile lessons
- Notes
- 9 Resource Scarcity, Political Outbidding and Potential for Conflict in the Nile River Basin
- Use and availability of water in the Nile River Basin
- Increased intertwinement of water, energy, land and food
- Water governance in the Nile River Basin: potential or pitfall?
- Conclusions
- 10 Nitrogen Fertilizer and Food in the Nexus
- Nitrogen fertilizer in the resource nexus
- China and the nitrogen nexus
- Food and agriculture in China
- Chemical fertilizers
- Other nexus dimensions
- Governance challenges
- India
- Synthetic fertilizers: a global resource governance challenge
- 11 Lifestyle Changes and Resource Efficiency Opportunities to bend the curves?
- Trends and challenges
- Sustainable lifestyles and sustainable livelihoods: connecting waste to want and war
- Engendering lifestyle responsibility
- Reassessing needs and collective action
- Facilitating lifestyles of sufficiency through policies
- Conclusion: an emerging agenda on lifestyle changes and consumption?
- Notes
- Part 4 Conclusions
- 12 Facing Up to the Nexus Challenge Avoiding waste, want and war
- Nexus governance failures
- Threats, if we fail to act
- Avoiding waste, want and war
- References
- Index
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