The geopolitics of resource wars: resource dependence, governance and violence

Going beyond conventional arguments of resource competition over scarce resources, this book examines the 'resource curse' affecting many resource-dependent countries and the spaces of (mis)governance shaping the violent geopolitics of many raw materials. Highlighting the multiple forms of violence accompanying the history of resources exploitation and current business practices supporting pred…

Carbon democracy: political power in the age of oil

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ISBN/ISSN

9781844677450

Collation

278 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

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[POL-LIB-479]

Energy, natural resources and environmental economics

The book consists of a collection of articles (survey and research) describing the area of energy, natural resources and environmental economics. The contents of the book is divided into four sections. The first part considers petroleum and natural gas applications, taking up topics ranging from the management of incomes and reserves to market modeling and value chain optimization. The second a…

Health, safety and environmental management in offshore and petroleum enginee…

This bookshares the technical knowhow in the field of HSE management, as applied to oil and gas industries and explains concepts through a simple and straightforward approach. The first chapter highlights safety assurance and assessment, emphasizing need for safety

The geopolitics of resource wars: resource dependence, governance and violence

edited by Philippe Le Billon.

The age of oil: the mythology, history, and future of the world's most contro…

Excellent and very interesting book. It contains a clear history of the oil industry and it's relevant events in modern history. Highly recommended for anybody interested in economics, politics and history.

Escaping the resource curse

The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we have seen the surprising and sobering consequences of this wealth, producing what is now known as the "resource curse." Countries with large endowments of natural resources, such as oil and gas, often do worse than their poorer neighbors. T…

Crude democracy: natural resource wealth and political regimes

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both authoritarianism and democracy, the book argues, but they do so through different mechanisms; an understanding of these different mechanisms can help elucidate when either the authoritarian or democratic effects of resource wealth will be relativel…

The taxation of petroleum and minerals: principles, problems and practice

Preface Dominique Strauss-Kahn 1. Introduction Philip Daniel, Michael Keen Charles McPherson (IMF) Part 1: Conceptual Overview 2. Theoretical perspectives on resource tax design Robin Boadway (Queens University, Canada) and Michael Keen (IMF) 3. Principles of resource taxation for low-income countries Paul Collier (University of Oxford) Part 2: Sectoral Experiences and Issues 4. Petroleum fisca…

Wind loads for petrochemical and other industrial facilities

prepared by Task Committee on Wind-Induced Forces of the Petrochemical Committee of the Energy Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers.