Oil
Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power and market growth. The legacy of this age of plenty includes declining conventional oil reserves, volatile prices, climate change, and enduring poverty in many oil rich countries. The oil sector is now in need of reform. Yet no one seems at the helm, leaving a vital source of energy at the whim of dictators, speculators and corporate operators, and our societies locked into unsustainable growth models.In this in-depth primer to the world's wealthiest indu…
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Weitere Autoren: Le Billon, Philippe
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-4926-9
- EAN: 9780745649269
- Produktnummer: 12450516
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.1 cm 368 g
- Gewicht: 368
Über den Autor
Philippe le Billon is associate professor at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia. He has worked for environmental and humanitarian organizations in Angola, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and the former Yugoslavia.Gavin Bridge is a reader in economic geography at the University of Manchester. He has published widely on the geography of natural resources.
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