"In recent years the concept of the resource "nexus" has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles. It is a powerful new way to understand and better govern the myriad complex relationships between multiple resources, actors and their security concerns. Particular attention has been paid to water, energy and food interactions, but land and materials emerge as critical too. This comprehensive handbook presents a detailed review of current knowledge about resource nexus-related frameworks, methods and governance, including a broad set of inter-disciplinary perspectives. Written by an international group of scholars and practitioners, the volume focuses on rigorous research, including tools, methods and modelling approaches to analyse resource use patterns across societies and scales from a "nexus perspective". It also provides numerous examples from political economy to demonstrate how resource nexus frameworks can illuminate issues such as land grabs, mining, renewable energy and the growing importance of economies such as China, as well as to propose lessons and outlooks for sound governance. The volume seeks to serve as an essential reference text, source book and state-of-the-art, science-based assessment of this increasingly important topic--the resource nexus--and its utility in efforts to enhance sustainability of many kinds and implement the United nation's Sustainable Development Goals in an era of environmental and geopolitical change."--Provided by publisher.
The resource nexus: a new approach / Raimund Bleischwitz, Holger Hoff, Catalina Spataru, Ester van der Voet, Stacy D. VanDeveer -- The wider environmental angle: Natural capital, ecosystem services, and biodiversity - resolving complexity and resilience issues / Kaysara Khatun and Gloria Salmoral -- Scales and the nexus / Corey Johnson and Stacy D. VanDeveer -- Security, climate change and the nexus / Bassel Daher, Sanghyun Lee, Rabi H. Mohtar, Jeremiah O. Asaka and Stacy D. VanDeveer -- Life cycle assessment, life cycle sustainability analysis and the resource nexus / Ester van der Voet, Jeroen B. Guinée -- Linking society and nature: material flows and the resource nexus / Anke Anke Schaffartzik and Domink Wiedenhofer -- Resource footprints / Stefan Giljum, Martin Bruckner and Stephan Lutter -- The role of environmentally extended input-output analysis in assessing nexus problems / Arnold Tukker and David Font Vivanco -- Criticality assessment / Gavin M. Mudd -- A framework of methods to address the resource nexus from an industrial ecology point of view / Ester van der Voet -- Modelling transformations - ecosystem services assessment as a tool for integrating environmental and social impacts / Perrine Hamel, Benjamin Bryant, Becky Chaplin-Kramer and Adrian Vogl -- Modelling practices at different scales from local to global / Enrique Kremers, Andreas Koch and Jochen Wendel -- Global change and K-waves: exploring the pattern of the future / Markku Wilenius -- Foresight and scenarios: selected practices to assess the Nexus / Gerd Ahlert, Martin Distelkamp and Mark Meyer -- Macro-economic modelling with extensions into the Nexus / Alvaro Calzadilla and Ramiro Parrado -- Towards a next generation of Integrated Dynamic Approaches to model the five-nodes (water-energy-land-food-materials) nexus / Catalina Spataru -- Nexus in an uncertain world: a non-equilibrium perspective / Shilpi Srivastava and Jeremy Allouche -- Mining and the Resource Nexus / David Humphreys -- Scarcities and a new resource curse: the supply of resources and nexus challenges / Raimund Bleischwitz and Jun Rentschler -- International commodity trade: some stylized facts / Vincenzo de Lipsis, Paolo Agnolucci and Raimund Bleischwitz -- Rare earth elements from a resource nexus perspective / Eva Barteková -- Governing the resource nexus: the significance of land in the global south / Julia Tomei and Darshini Ravindranath -- The water-energy-food nexus in China / Philip Andrews-Speed and Carole Dalin -- The energy - materials nexus / Ester v.d Voet, René Kleijn and Gavin M. Mudd -- Unconventional oil and gas production and the Nexus / Tim Boersma and Philip Andrews-Speed -- A resource nexus pathway to feed Africa: opportunities, challenges and policy options / Timothy O. Williams, Fred Kizito and Marloes M. Mul -- The five node resource nexus in the Ocean Realm / Tundi Agardy -- Urban metabolism, new urban governance / Corey Johnson -- Eco-innovation and decoupling ¿ between ambitions and evidence for eco-innovation delivering on the resource nexus challenges / Michal Miedzinski, Will McDowall and Raimund Bleischwitz -- Green Chemistry: Opportunities from food supply chain waste / Avtar Matharu, Eduardo Melo and Joseph A Houghton -- The energy-water nexus: policy and technological innovation in California / Blas L. Perez Hernandez -- The UN, Global Governance and the SDGs / Maria Ivanova and Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy