Want, waste or war?
Subtitle: the global resource nexus and the struggle for land, energy, food, water and minerals
By: Philip Andrews-Speed and five others
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781138784468; 9781138784598
Subjects: International Security; Human security; Globalization; Natural resources; Raw materials; Political aspects; Economic aspects
Description: "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"--
Notes: "Earthscan from Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Resource Struggles and Hard Choices; title: Understanding the Resource Nexus; title: Managing Markets under Stress; title: Strategic Interests and Interstate Conflicts; title: Rethinking Human Security : The Nexus on the Ground; title: Shale Gas in the US : Games Unchanged?; title: Climate Change and Security : Follow the Money and the Plans; title: Gated Globalism : Migration and Borders; title: Resource Scarcity, Political Outbidding and Potential for Conflict in the Nile River Basin; title: Nitrogen Fertilizer and Food in the Nexus; title: Lifestyle Changes and Resource Efficiency : Opportunities to Bend the Curves?; title: Facing up to the Nexus Challenge : Avoiding Waste, Want and War.