Want, Waste or War? ― The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water and Minerals

"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 nexusissues and the related governance challenges and opportunities"--

Philip Andrews-Speed is Principal Fellow, Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Energy Policy and Director of the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, UK.

Raimund Bleischwitz is BHP Billiton Chair in Sustainable Global Resources, University College London (UCL), Institute for Sustainable Resources, London, UK.

Tim Boersma is Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Energy Security Initiative, Washington DC, USA.

Corey Johnson is Associate Professor of Political Geography, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

Geoffrey Kemp is Director of Regional Security Programs, The Center for the National Interest, Washington DC, USA.

Stacy D. VanDeveer is a Professor & Department Chair, Department of Political Science, University of New Hampshire, USA.