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Competition and Conflicts on Resource Use

  • Gives background information about resource conflicts and solutions for safe resources supply in the future
  • Presents interdisciplinary research, including peace researchers, nuclear energy professionals and environmental scientists
  • Provides a comprehensive scientific information pool on many facets of resource conflicts
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Natural Resource Management and Policy (NRMP, volume 46)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Preamble

    • Susanne Hartard
    Pages 1-11
  3. Role of Resources for International Conflict Constellations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Climate Change and Conflict

      • Ragnhild Nordås, Nils Petter Gleditsch
      Pages 21-38
  4. Conflicts on Fossil and Nuclear Energy Supply

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
    2. Nuclear Fuel Chain: Uranium Resources and Associated Risks

      • Wolfgang Liebert, Matthias Englert
      Pages 75-92
    3. Conflicts on Nuclear Energy Use

      • Michael Sailer
      Pages 93-100
  5. Perspectives of Strategic Material Resources Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
  6. Sustainable Solutions for Resource Consumption

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
    2. Technological Innovation and Anthropogenic Material Flows

      • Liselotte Schebek, Witold-Roger Poganietz, Silke Feifel, Saskia Ziemann
      Pages 135-153
    3. Illicit trade with Coltan and Implications for Certification

      • Raimund Bleischwitz, Monika Dittrich, Chiara Pierdicca
      Pages 155-175
    4. Certified Trading Chains in Mineral Production

      • Gudrun Franken, Jürgen Vasters, Ulrike Dorner, Philip Schütte, Dirk Küster, Uwe Näher
      Pages 177-186
  7. Water Conflict Prevention by Water Resource Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

About this book

This book reflects on the causes of resource-based conflicts and competition, and presents solutions for safely and sustainably providing resources with a focus on material flow management. The contributions from different disciplines highlight issues such as safe access to resources, conflicts over water and energy supplies, waste of strategic mineral resources, sustainable resource consumption, and renewable energy technologies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Applied Sciences Trier Environmental Campus Birkenfeld, Hoppstädten-Weiersbach, Germany

    Susanne Hartard

  • University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Institute of Safety/Security and Risk Sciences (ISR), Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Liebert

About the editors

Susanne Hartard is professor of Industrial Ecology at the Trier University of Applied Sciences, Environmental Campus Birkenfeld in Germany since 2008. She studied Agrobusiness and Ecological Environmental Safety Management at the University of Kassel. Her 20-year professional career includes environmental advisory activities in sustainable waste management and recycling projects and work on material flow management concepts. She worked as a researcher at the Universities of Kassel, Weimar and Darmstadt, Post–doc in the field of Industrial Material Cycles. Her actual research focuses on strategies of safe resources supply by regional concepts, circular economy and resilience strategies especially for producing companies.

Wolfgang Liebert is professor at the Institute of Safety/Security and Risk Sciences (ISR), University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (Universität für Bodenkultur, BOKU) in Vienna Austria since end of 2012. Before, he was scientific director of IANUS, the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Science, Technology and Security, at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Wolfgang Liebert has studied physics and philosophy in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt. His main fields of research and work currently are: nuclear non-proliferation and arms control, assessment of current and future nuclear technology, assessment of energy technology, prospective (science and) technology assessment, philosophy of science and technology.

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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