Routledge Handbook of the Resource Nexus

ISBN-13: 9781138675490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 518 str.

Raimund Bleischwitz; Holger Hoff; Catalina Spataru

Opis

In recent years the concept of the resource -nexus- has been hotly debated and now widely adopted in research and policy circles as a powerful new way of understanding the complexities and relationships between multiple resources and their sustainable management. These include particularly water, food and energy, but also other dimensions such as biological resources, ecosystems and minerals, as well as the circular economy and conflicts over resource use. This comprehensive handbook presents a detailed international review of current knowledge and thinking on the resource nexus from an inter-disciplinary perspective. It has a strong focus on rigorous research, including tools, methods and modelling approaches to analyse resource use from a nexus perspective. It also provides numerous examples from political economy to demonstrate how the nexus can help illuminate issues such as land grabs, climate change and renewable energy, and the growing importance of economies such as China in the supply and demand of resources, as well as propose models for sound governance. The volume will serve as an essential reference text, source book and state-of-the-art (and science) on the increasingly important topic of the resource nexus in ensuring food, water and energy security in an era of environmental change and geopolitical uncertainty.

Spis treści

Part I: Understanding the resource nexus: setting scenes  1. The resource nexus: Preface and Introduction to the Routledge Handbook 2. Appreciating wider environmental angles  3. Scale and the resource nexus  4. Security, climate change, and the resource nexus  Part II: Analysing the resource nexus: tools and metrics  5. Life Cycle Assessment for resource nexus analysis  6. Linking society and nature: material flows and the resource nexus  7. Resource footprints  8. Input–output analysis and resource nexus assessment  9. Material criticality assessment and resource nexus analysis  10. Industrial ecology methods and the resource nexus  Part III: Resource nexus modelling: practices and future transformations  11. Integrating environmental and social impacts with ecosystem services analysis  12. Modelling practices from local to global  13. Global change and K-waves: exploring nexus patterns  14. Foresight and scenarios: modelling practices and resource nexus assessment  15. Extending macro-economic modelling into the resource nexus  16. The five-node resouce nexus dynamics: an intergrated modelling approach Part IV: International political economy and the resource nexus  17. The resource nexus in an uncertain world: a non-equilibrium perspective  18. Mining and the resource nexus  19. Scarcities, supply, and new resource curses?  20. The international commodity trade: stylized facts  21. Rare earth elements and a resource nexus perspective  22. Governing land in the Global South  Part V: Applying the resource nexus: regional and global scale  23. Elements of the water–energy–food nexus in China  24. The energy–materials nexus: the case of metals  25. Unconventional oil and gas production meets the resource nexus  26. Feeding Africa: nexus-related opportunities, challenges and policy options  27. The five-node resource nexus at sea  Part VI: Governing the resource nexus: emerging responses  28. Urban metabolism and new urban governance  29. Eco-innovation and resource nexus challenges: ambitions and evidence  30. Green Chemistry: Opportunities, waste and food supply chains  31. California innovations @ WEN  32. The UN, Global Governance and the SDGs