Oil Panic and the Global Crisis : Predictions and Myths
Steven M. Gorelick
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (257 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Oil Panic and the Global Crisis; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About Units; Getting Started: What Do You Think?; 1: End of the Oil Era; 2: The Global Oil Landscape; 3: The Historical Resource Depletion Debate; 4: Counter-Arguments to Imminent Global Oil Depletion; 5: Beyond Panic; Index. - Is the world running out of oil? This book analyzes predictions of global oil depletion in the context of science, history, and economics. There has been continuing alarm about the imminent exhaustion of earth's non-renewable resources. Yet, the world has never run out of any significant, globally traded, non-renewable resource. Is the world finally facing a non-renewable resource depletion catastrophe, or is the current concern just another one of a succession of panics? In this book, key assumptions and underlying arguments in the global oil-depletion debate are first summarized and then c
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| Emner | Energy consumption - Forecasting
Petroleum industry and trade Petroleum reserves - Forecasting Power resources -- Forecasting. Vis mer... Business & Economics
Industries Petroleumsindustri petroleumsreserve prognose energiressurs framtidsperspektiv oljeforbruk peak oil |
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| ISBN | 9781405195485
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