Energy Resources

By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age - and it still does. Coal today...

By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age - and it still does. Coal today...

Given the potential disruption of climate change, understanding energy issues and technologies is more important than ever if societies are to make...

A global energy war is underway. It is man versus nature, fossil fuel versus clean energy, the haves versus the have-nots, and, fundamentally, an e...

Over the next several decades, as human populations grow and developing countries become more affluent, the demand for energy will soar. Parts of t...

A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today''s fossil fuel-...

Conversations about energy law and policy are paramount, undergoing new scrutiny and characterizations. Energy Follies: Missteps, Fiascos, and Succ...

Climate change will be an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe unless we move quickly to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Policy experts advi...

As a society we use energy for climate control and lighting in buildings, moving people and goods form one place to another and making things. Our ...

As a society we use energy for climate control and lighting in buildings, moving people and goods form one place to another and making things. Our ...

We know, from repeated failures to predict and prevent catastrophes ranging from the Great Tohoku Earthquake to the global financial crisis of 2008...

This book is the first to examine oil constraints and tourism, and addresses one of the key challenges for the tourism industry in the future. It p...

Hauling Pennsylvania anthracite and backloads of iron ore among mountain mines, inland ports and tidewater cites along its 106-mile route, the Morr...

Companies are becoming more aware of the public relations value of the green agenda to their business and are including information on their sustai...

Discussing the future of energy production and management in a changing world, this book contains the proceedings of the first international confer...

Carbon Democracy provides a unique examination of the relationship between oil and democracy. Interweaving the history of energy, political analysi...

A sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power - and contributed to the worsening climate crisisThe mo...