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UNINA9910139920703321 |
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Autore |
Gorelick Steven M |
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Oil panic and the global crisis [[electronic resource] ] : predictions and myths / / Steven M. Gorelick |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
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1-4443-5989-4 |
1-282-34361-0 |
9786612343612 |
1-4443-1452-1 |
1-4443-1453-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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333.823 |
333.8232 |
622.1828 |
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Petroleum industry and trade |
Petroleum reserves - Forecasting |
Energy consumption - Forecasting |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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- |
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depletion debate are first summarized and then c |
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UNINA9910827844503321 |
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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 |
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Washington, District of Columbia : , : National Academies Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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0-309-28520-8 |
0-309-28518-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (84 p.) |
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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 |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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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. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-58). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""FrontMatter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction and Themes of the Workshop""; ""2 The Promise of Technology""; ""3 |
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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"" |
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