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 Nations
Sustainable Development Goals in an era of environmental and
geopolitical change.
