536 Pages 160 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    536 Pages 160 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.


              Part I: Understanding the resource nexus: Setting scenes

    1. The Resource Nexus: Preface and Introduction
      Raimund Bleischwitz, Holger Hoff, Catalina Spataru, Ester van der Voet, Stacy D. VanDeveer
    2. Appreciating wider environmental angles
      Kaysara Khatun and Gloria Salmoral
    3. Scales and the resource nexus
      Corey Johnson and Stacy D. VanDeveer
    4. Security, climate change and the resource nexus
      Bassel Daher, Sanghyun Lee, Rabi H. Mohtar, Jeremiah O. Asaka and Stacy D. VanDeveer
    5. Part II: Analysing the resource nexus: Tools and metrics

    6. Life Cycle Assessment for resource nexus analysis
    7. Ester van der Voet and Jeroen B. Guinée

    8. Linking society and nature: material flows and the resource nexus
    9. Anke Schaffartzik and Dominik Wiedenhofer

    10. Resource footprints
    11. Stefan Giljum, Martin Bruckner and Stephan Lutter

    12. Input-Output analysis and resource nexus assessment
      Arnold Tukker and David Font Vivanco
    13. Material criticality assessment and resource nexus analysis
      Gavin M. Mudd
    14. Industrial Ecology Methods and the Resource Nexus
    15. Ester van der Voet

      Part III: Resource nexus modelling: Practices and future transformations

    16. Integrating environmental and social impacts with Ecosystem services analysis
      Perrine Hamel, Benjamin Bryant, Becky Chaplin-Kramer and Adrian Vogl
    17. Modelling practices from local to global
      Enrique Kremers, Andreas Koch and Jochen Wendel
    18. Global change and K-waves: exploring nexus patterns
      Markku Wilenius
    19. Foresight and scenarios: modelling practices and resource nexus assessment
      Gerd Ahlert, Martin Distelkamp and Mark Meyer
    20. Extending macro-economic modelling into the resource nexus
    21. Alvaro Calzadilla and Ramiro Parrado

    22. The five-node resource nexus dynamics: an integrated modelling approach
      Catalina Spataru
    23. Part IV: International political economy and the resource nexus

    24. The resource nexus in an uncertain world: a non-equilibrium perspective
      Shilpi Srivastava and Jeremy Allouche
    25. Mining and the resource nexus
    26. David Humphreys

    27. Scarcities, supply and new resource curses?
      Raimund Bleischwitz and Jun Rentschler
    28. The international commodity trade: Stylized facts
      Vincenzo de Lipsis, Paolo Agnolucci and Raimund Bleischwitz
    29. Rare Earth Elements and a resource nexus perspective
      Eva Barteková
    30. Governing land in the Global South
    31. Julia Tomei and Darshini Ravindranath

      Part V: Applying the resource nexus: Regional and Global Scale

    32. Elements of the Water-Energy-Food nexus in China
    33. Philip Andrews-Speed and Carole Dalin

    34. The Energy-Materials nexus: the case of metals
      Ester v.d Voet, René Kleijn and Gavin M. Mudd
    35. Unconventional oil and gas production meets the resource nexus
      Tim Boersma and Philip Andrews-Speed
    36. Feeding Africa: Nexus-related opportunities, challenges and policy options
    37. Timothy O. Williams, Fred Kizito and Marloes M. Mul

    38. The five node resource nexus at sea
      Tundi Agardy
    39. Part VI: Governing the resource nexus: Emerging responses

    40. Urban metabolism and new urban governance
      Corey Johnson
    41. Eco-innovation and resource nexus challenges: Ambitions and evidence
    42. Michal Miedzinski, Will McDowall and Raimund Bleischwitz

    43. Green Chemistry: Opportunities, waste and food supply chains
      Avtar Matharu, Eduardo Melo and Joseph A. Houghton
    44. California Innovations @ WEN
    45. Blas L. Pérez Henríquez

    46. The UN, Global Governance and the SDGs
      Maria Ivanova and Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy

    Biography

    Raimund Bleischwitz is Chair in Sustainable Global Resources and Deputy Director at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, UK.

    Holger Hoff has a joint appointment as a Senior Researcher in the Resources and Development Group at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden, and in the Research Domain "Earth System Analysis" at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

    Catalina Spataru is a Lecturer on Energy Systems and Networks and Director of the MRes course Energy Demand Studies at UCL Energy Institute, University College London, UK.

    Ester van der Voet is an Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, The Netherlands. She is also a member of the UN International Resource Panel.

    Stacy D. VanDeveer is a Professor of Global Governance and Human Security at the McCormack School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA.

    "The language of the nexus highlights the need for interconnected thinking between the natural and social sciences, and between the research community and decision makers. By bringing together such an outstanding range of thinkers and perspectives from across the world, Routledge Handbook of the Resource Nexus looks set to become an indispensable volume for all those engaged in these debates. It sets out with admirable clarity the theoretical, empirical and research underpinnings of this field, and will provide nexus brokers and boundary-spanners with the intellectual tools they need to achieve tangible progress." - James Wilsdon, Professor of Research Policy, University of Sheffield, UK and Director, ESRC Nexus Network

    "No energy myopia, no water myopia and no food cry of alarm, but a great handbook addressing the mutual relations." - Ernst von Weizsäcker, Past Co-Chair, International Resource Panel

    "This handbook provides a qualified response, given by key experts, to the recurring question of what the Resource Nexus actually means. That nexus is presented as a useful heuristic for addressing the new challenges of the Anthropocene and for evidence-based support of a sustainability transition. Integrative methods and tools for systemic resource management and governance are illustrated, adaptable to a wide range of thematic and geographic contexts and scales." - Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany and Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden

    "[the handbook is] a massive volume packed with 32 interesting and thought-provoking chapters researched and written by over 50 contributors" - Anton Löf, in Mineral Economics (March, 2019)