This book deals with the emerging global scarcities on food, energy and water; on how these are interrelated and affected by considerations and policies dealing with climate change and on how they affect the relative position of individual countries, groups of countries and the development prospects of developing countries. Experts in the field give their views on the matter. On the growing relationships and growing competition between food and bio-fuels; the consequence of rising energy prices and the geopolitical consequences of a likely further expansion of global demand for energy; Europe's (over)dependence on oil and gas from external resources; on climate change and the growing scarcity of water in relation to increasing demand for the production of food and bio-fuels. They finally shed their light on the shifts brought about in international power relations.

Twenty years ago, economic planning and protectionism were held responsible for poverty and stagnation. Nowadays it is the market that is blamed, not only for increased poverty and income inequality, but also for the dismantling of public services and ecological destruction. Yesterday's solutions have become today's problems. Liberalisation and privatisation have left people and environment at the mercy of the free market. The mightiest are reaping the benefits, the weakest are footing the bill. Meanwhile the global economy is being hit by one crisis after another: financial crises, an energy crisis, a food crisis -- and of course the poorest countries and people are affected the most. In this volume current insights and sticky policy dilemmas will be identified, and their implications assessed for the policies of organisations and institutions in the field of international co-operation.

This book deals with the emerging global scarcities on food, energy and water; on how these are interrelated and affected by considerations and policies dealing with climate change and on how they affect the relative position of individual countries, groups of countries and the development prospects of developing countries. Experts in the field give their views on the matter. On the growing relationships and growing competition between food and bio-fuels; the consequence of rising energy prices and the geopolitical consequences of a likely further expansion of global demand for energy; Europe's (over)dependence on oil and gas from external resources; on climate change and the growing scarcity of water in relation to increasing demand for the production of food and bio-fuels. They finally shed their light on the shifts brought about in international power relations.

Twenty years ago, economic planning and protectionism were held responsible for poverty and stagnation. Nowadays it is the market that is blamed, not only for increased poverty and income inequality, but also for the dismantling of public services and ecological destruction. Yesterday's solutions have become today's problems. Liberalisation and privatisation have left people and environment at the mercy of the free market. The mightiest are reaping the benefits, the weakest are footing the bill. Meanwhile the global economy is being hit by one crisis after another: financial crises, an energy crisis, a food crisis -- and of course the poorest countries and people are affected the most. In this volume current insights and sticky policy dilemmas will be identified, and their implications assessed for the policies of organisations and institutions in the field of international co-operation.