Overview
- A constructive combination of a specific focus on the resource nexus
- Impressive interdisciplinary range of contributions towards critical examination and re-conceptualization of the resource nexus
- Lead editor is a world-renowned expert in the field of environmental and natural resource governance and management
- Research is topical and has a long 'shelf life' in the academic field due to its diversity
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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This collection critically engages the resource use nexus. Clearly, a nexus-approach to resource policy, planning and practice is essential if sustainable development goals are to be met. In particular, in an era of climate change, an integrated approach to water, energy and agriculture is imperative. Agriculture accounts for 70% of global water withdrawals, food production accounts for 30% of global energy use and a rising global population requires more of everything. As shown in this collection, scholars of resource development, governance and management are ‘nexus sensitive’, utilizing a sort of ‘nexus sensibility’ in their work as it focuses on the needs of people particularly, but not only, in the global South. Importantly, a nexus-approach presents academics and practitioners with a discursive space in which to shape policy through research, to deepen and improve understandings of the interconnections and impacts of particular types of resource use, and to critically reflecton actions taken in the name of the ‘nexus’.
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Keywords
- International Political Economy
- Water resources
- Sustainable policy
- Resource management
- Global South development
- Climate change
- Energy resources
- Food production
- ‘Nexus Approach’
- Ecosystem services
- Korle Lagoon ecological pollution problem
- Framework for Urban Management of the Environment (FUME)
- Resource use nexus
- Resource policy
- sustainable development goals
- agriculture
- resource development
- Resource governance
- population
- hydropolitics
- latin american politics
Table of contents (13 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Larry A. Swatuk is Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is also Extraordinary Professor at the Institute of Water Studies at the University of Western Cape, South Africa and Associate Researcher, Bonn International Centre for Conversion (BICC) in Bonn, Germany.
Corrine Cash is Lecturer at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish in Nova Scotia, Canada. She is Executive Director of Green Cities Solutions, and former Senior Advisor to the President of Cape Breton University in Nova Scotia, Canada. Cash is an urban planner with extensive experience in community development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Water, Energy, Food and People Across the Global South
Book Subtitle: ‘The Nexus’ in an Era of Climate Change
Editors: Larry A. Swatuk, Corrine Cash
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64024-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64023-5Published: 27 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87702-0Published: 29 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64024-2Published: 16 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 340
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Political Economy, African Politics, Latin American Politics, Middle Eastern Politics, Climate Change Management and Policy, Energy Policy, Economics and Management