Gorelick Oil Panic and the Global Crisis

Predictions and Myths
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5989-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Is the world running out of oil? This book analyzes predictions ofglobal oil depletion in the context of science, history, andeconomics.
There has been continuing alarm about the imminent exhaustion ofearth's non-renewable resources. Yet, the world has never run outof any significant, globally traded, non-renewable resource. Is theworld finally facing a non-renewable resource depletioncatastrophe, or is the current concern just another one of asuccession of panics? In this book, key assumptions and underlyingarguments in the global oil-depletion debate are first summarizedand then challenged. Facts about oil supply, production, andconsumption are made accessible using concise and simplegraphics.
Concepts of resource depletion, end-use needs, technologyleap-frogging, efficiency, and substitution are used to evaluatehistorical patterns of exploitation of non-renewable resources andto explore what history suggests about our future dependence onoil.
This book is aimed at a broad range of readers,fromundergraduate students studying resource science and economics toanyone interested in understanding the context of the controversyover global oil depletion.
"It is a book serious students of the world oil market shouldread, not because Gorelick has all the answers but because hisaccount is well reasoned, well informed, and argued honestly, withrespect for responsible opposing viewpoints."
Book Review, Science, May 2010

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gorelick, Steven M.

Über Autor(innen)

Steven M. Gorelick holds the Cyrus Fisher Tolman Professorship in the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University, where he has been on the faculty for over 20 years. In 2005, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow for his study of global oil depletion. Professor Gorelick is a Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union and Geological Society of America, and he has been selected twice as a Fulbright Senior Scholar (1997 and 2008) for studies of water resources issues in Australia.