Routledge Handbook of the Resource Nexus

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 andthe 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 The Resource Nexus: Preface and Introduction Raimund Bleischwitz, Holger Hoff, Catalina Spataru, Ester van der Voet, Stacy D. VanDeveer Appreciating wider environmental anglesKaysara Khatun and Gloria Salmoral Scales and the resource nexusCorey Johnson and Stacy D. VanDeveer Security, climate change and the resource nexus Bassel Daher, Sanghyun Lee, Rabi H. Mohtar, Jeremiah O. Asaka and Stacy D. VanDeveer Part II: Analysing the resource nexus: Tools and metrics Life Cycle Assessment for resource nexus analysis Ester van der Voet and Jeroen B. Guinée Linking society and nature: material flows and the resource nexus Anke Schaffartzik and Dominik Wiedenhofer Resource footprints Stefan Giljum, Martin Bruckner and Stephan Lutter Input-Output analysis and resource nexus assessment Arnold Tukker and David Font Vivanco Material criticality assessment and resource nexus analysis Gavin M. Mudd Industrial Ecology Methods and the Resource Nexus Ester van der Voet Part III: Resource nexus modelling: Practices and future transformations Integrating environmental and social impacts with Ecosystem services analysisPerrine Hamel, Benjamin Bryant, Becky Chaplin-Kramer and Adrian Vogl Modelling practices from local to globalEnrique Kremers, Andreas Koch and Jochen Wendel Global change and K-waves: exploring nexus patterns Markku Wilenius Foresight and scenarios: modelling practices and resource nexus assessmentGerd Ahlert, Martin Distelkamp and Mark Meyer Extending macro-economic modelling into the resource nexus Alvaro Calzadilla and Ramiro Parrado The five-node resource nexus dynamics: anintegrated modelling approach Catalina Spataru Part IV: International political economy and the resource nexus The resource nexus in an uncertain world: a non-equilibrium perspective Shilpi Srivastava and Jeremy Allouche Mining and the resource nexus David Humphreys Scarcities, supply and new resource curses? Raimund Bleischwitz and Jun Rentschler The international commodity trade: Stylized factsVincenzo de Lipsis, Paolo Agnolucci and Raimund Bleischwitz Rare Earth Elements and a resource nexus perspectiveEva Barteková Governing land in the Global South Julia Tomei and Darshini Ravindranath Part V: Applying the resource nexus: Regional and Global Scale Elements of the Water-Energy-Food nexus in China Philip Andrews-Speed and Carole Dalin The Energy-Materials nexus: the case of metalsEster v.d Voet, René Kleijn and Gavin M. Mudd Unconventional oil and gas production meets the resource nexus Tim Boersma and Philip Andrews-Speed Feeding Africa: Nexus-related opportunities, challenges and policy options Timothy O. Williams, Fred Kizito and Marloes M. Mul The five node resource nexus at seaTundi Agardy Part VI: Governing the resource nexus: Emerging responses Urban metabolism and new urban governanceCorey Johnson Eco-innovation and resource nexus challenges: Ambitions and evidence Michal Miedzinski, Will McDowall and Raimund Bleischwitz Green Chemistry: Opportunities, waste and food supply chainsAvtar Matharu, Eduardo Melo and Joseph A. Houghton California Innovations @ WEN Blas L. Pérez Henríquez The UN, Global Governance and the SDGsMaria Ivanova and Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy

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 Resourcesand 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.