ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores through the lens of the resource nexus the complex dilemmas posed by mismanagement of the earth's endowments. This approach focuses on the connections between different natural resources and the threats arising through growing demand and poor management of these links. The resource nexus approach not only provides insights into the nature and origins of many problems relating to natural resources. At the heart of this failure to govern the resource nexus lies the silo or stovepipe character of organization structure and policy making, in government, science and knowledge-making industries and in international organizations. This nexus on the ground described in provides the most extreme cases of the waste-want-war logic, with the Horn of Africa and Yemen being prime examples of nearly ungoverned spaces that directly though not exclusively link to resource nexus issues.
