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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139920703321

Autore

Gorelick Steven M

Titolo

Oil panic and the global crisis [[electronic resource] ] : predictions and myths / / Steven M. Gorelick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

ISBN

1-4443-5989-4

1-282-34361-0

9786612343612

1-4443-1452-1

1-4443-1453-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

333.823

333.8232

622.1828

Soggetti

Petroleum industry and trade

Petroleum reserves - Forecasting

Energy consumption - Forecasting

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827844503321

Titolo

Fostering independence, participation, and healthy aging through technology : workshop summary / / Tracy A. Lustig and Steve Olson, Rapporteurs ; Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence ; Board on Health Sciences Policy ; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : National Academies Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-309-28520-8

0-309-28518-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (84 p.)

Disciplina

618.9703

Soggetti

Technology and older people - Health aspects

Technology and older people - Social aspects

Aging - Health aspects

Aging - Social aspects

Older people - Health and hygiene

Autonomy - Health aspects

Autonomy - Social aspects

Social participation - Health aspects

Social participation - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Summary of a workshop held by the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence on December 19, 2012 in Washington, D.C. titled Fostering Independence, Participation, and Healthy Aging Through Technology--Cf. p. 3.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-58).

Nota di contenuto

""FrontMatter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction and Themes of the Workshop""; ""2 The Promise of Technology""; ""3



Technologies to Promote Activities of Daily Living and Independence""; ""4 Technologies to Promote Community Integration and Participation Through Community Design""; ""5 Technologies to Promote Community Integration and Participation Through Social Connectedness""; ""6 Health Management and Promotion""; ""7 Reflections on the Presentations""; ""References""; ""Appendix A: Workshop Agenda""; ""Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches""