Running out [[electronic resource] ] : how global shortages change the economic paradigm : a statistical yearbook, 2008 / / Pablo Rafael Gonzalez
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| Autore: |
González Pablo Rafael
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| Titolo: |
Running out [[electronic resource] ] : how global shortages change the economic paradigm : a statistical yearbook, 2008 / / Pablo Rafael Gonzalez
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Algora Pub., 2008 |
| Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.8/2 |
| 333.82 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Nonrenewable natural resources |
| Natural resources | |
| Energy consumption | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Table of Contents""; ""Author�s Preface to the Second Edition""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. The New Paradigm""; ""Chapter 2. Economy, Energy and the Environment""; ""Chapter 3. Population and Energy""; ""Chapter 4. Running Out of Oil""; ""Chapter 5. Finite Resources""; ""Chapter 6. Reality 2000""; ""Chapter 7. Forecasts Show Demand for Oil Will Outstrip Supply""; ""Chapter 8. More Production, Less Reserves""; ""Chapter 9. Crude Oil in the Non-OPEC Countries""; ""Chapter 10. Crude Oil in the OPEC Countries""; ""Chapter 11. Different Option"" |
| ""Chapter 12. How Long Will the Oil Reserves Last?""""Chapter 13. A Look to the Past""; ""Chapter 14. Production and Prices""; ""Chapter 15. What Next?"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The shocking implications of a worldwide scarcity of natural resources have suddenly started to come clear. Higher prices for gas and heating oil may be a mere inconvenience, so far; occasional brown-outs and water shortages can be brushed off as seasonal or regional problems - but only up to a point. These are quickly evolving into major, prolonged and widespread shortages of the most elementary commodities, and food riots have already sprung up. The crisis is being accelerated by mankind's heedless overexploitation and contamination of what's left. Pablo Rafael Gonzalez documents the dire st |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Running out |
| ISBN: | 0-87586-514-3 |
| 1-281-79371-X | |
| 9786611793715 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777756303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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