Format:
1 Online-Ressource (306 pages)
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350222656
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9781780321707
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1780321708
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9781780321714
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1780321716
Content:
About the author; Title page; Copyright; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Problem of Energy; Energy; Oil; Summarizing the argument; The problem of oil is 42; PART I Oil Dregs; Chapter 1: Oil and the Crash of 2007-08; Oil and money; Neoliberalism; Sprawltown; Conclusion; Chapter 2: The Century of Oil; Humans and nature; The origins of oil civilization; Figure 2.1 Sources of global carbon emissions, 1800-2010; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Consuming Miles; Consuming from afar; Dubai; From neighbourhood lives; Places for consuming; More consumers; Conclusion.
Content:
Chapter 4 : Carbon Capital energy inequalities; Establishing carbon capitalism; Combating environmentalism; The noughties; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Peaking; Peak oil thesis; Figure 5.1 The discovery and consumption of oil, 1900-2030; Figure 5.2 North sea oil production, 1965-2010; Tough oil; Political peaking; Climate change and multiple crises; Conclusion; Chapter 6: The Chinese Century?; Oiling Chinese development; Chinese urbanization; Cars in China; Supertankers; China's emissions; Conclusion; Chapter 7: The Curse of Oil; There will be blood; Oil and 'troubled waters'; Norway.
Content:
Democracy and oil part II Social Futures; Chapter 8: Magic Bullet Future; Energy and its futures; Magic bullet of hydrogen; Technological fixes; Conclusion; Chapter 9: Digital Lives; Digital worlds; Digitizing manufacturing; Digitizing social life; The costs of going digital; Conclusion; Chapter 10: Resource Fights; Recent resource wars; Future wars; Conclusion; Chapter 11: Low-carbon Society; The green shoots of a powered-down future; Figure 11.1 Social globalization across the world, 1970-2008; Figure 11.2 Vehicle miles traveled in the USA 1992-2011 (12-month average, billion miles/day).
Content:
In this groundbreaking book, John Urry shows how the twentieth century created a mirage of unlimited future growth that masked its limits. He considers the nature of an oil-dependent world facing energy descent and what lessons can be learned from past energy-constrained societies. With no large-scale plan B to energize and mobilize societies, Urry assesses the likelihood of some very different futures for this century
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-286) and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780321691
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1780321694
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9787803216845
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780321684
Additional Edition:
ISBN 7803216846
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1780321686
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780321691
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Urry, John, 1946 - 2016 Societies beyond oil London : Zed Books, 2013 ISBN 9781780321684
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780321691
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
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Political Science
Keywords:
Öl
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Natürliche Ressourcen
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Nachhaltigkeit
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Sozialer Wandel
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350222656
Author information:
Urry, John 1946-2016
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