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Want, waste or war? The global resource nexus and the struggle for land, energy, food, water and minerals / Philip Andrews-Speed, Raimund Bleischwitz, Tim Boersma, Corey Johnson, Geoffrey Kemp, Stacy D. VanDeveer. Routledge, 2015, 230 p.http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138784598/Description (© Routledge) :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 nexus issues and the related governance challenges and opportunities... read moreContents :Part 1: Struggling in the Global Resource Nexus 1. Introduction: Resource Struggles and Hard Choices2. Understanding the Resource NexusPart 2: The Three Realms of the Nexus 3. Managing Markets under Stress4. Strategic Interests and Interstate Conflicts5. Rethinking Human Security: The Nexus on the GroundPart 3: Cases and Controversies 6. Shale Gas in the US: Games Unchanged?7. Climate Change and Security: Follow the Money and the Plans8. Gated Globalism: Migration and Borders9. Resource Scarcity, Political Outbidding and Potential for Conflict in the Nile River Basin10. Nitrogen Fertilizer and Food in the Nexus11. Lifestyle Changes and Resource Efficiency: Opportunities to Bend the Curves?Part 4: Conclusions 12. Facing up to the Nexus Challenge: Avoiding Waste, Want and War