Overview
- Approaches energy policy and development from a risk, safety, reliability impact point of view and shows how and why alternative energy development will soon over take petroleum as a dominant fuel source
- Up-to-date review of energy alternatives, their development potentials, costs, and environmental impacts. Clear statement of the decline of use of fossil fuels, particularly oil and their replacement by more environmentally and secure sources of energy
- Impact of changes in energy demand and use on the current dominant position of the Middle East and its future socio-economic as well as political role or position
- Plan for a more socio-economic and environmentally acceptable energy future
Part of the book series: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (TSRQ, volume 12)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Oil and Security
Book Subtitle: A World beyond Petroleum
Editors: Ernst Gabriel Frankel
Series Title: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6382-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6381-7Published: 30 November 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7620-5Published: 20 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6382-4Published: 30 September 2008
Series ISSN: 1566-0443
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0285
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 174
Topics: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, International Economics, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Renewable and Green Energy, Environmental Economics, Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture)