ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the meaning and utility of the concept of scale, and scalar thinking and analysis, by discussing its use and development in disciplines such as geography and ecology, where it is of central intellectual importance and where it has been engaged in resource-related analysis for some time. It seeks to connect the concept more explicitly to the resource nexus, and to analysis in politics, policy and governance. The chapter explore the connections between scale and resource and climate governance. The type and importance of the linkages between the resources in the nexus will vary spatially as will the feasibility and acceptability of measures to reduce external costs and improve overall sustainability and resource use efficiency. Recent scholarship, particularly related to understanding contemporary European politics, and politics and governance related to energy and climate change at multiple scales has often deployed the concept of "multilevel governance".
