Tag Archives: Global
Energy Security and Global Politics: The Militarization of Resource Management
Product DescriptionThis book analyses the strategic dimensions of energy security, particularly where energy resources have become the object of military competition. The volume explores the risks that may arise from conditions of increasing economic competition and resource scarcity, and the problems that may follow if major producers or consumers of energy lose confidence in the [...]
Energy in a Finite World Vol. II: Global Systems Analysis
Energy in a Finite World Vol. II: Global Systems Analysis
Asia’s Energy Future: Regional Dynamics and Global Implications
Product DescriptionConcerns about energy security affect economic performance and political stability all over the world. Yet nowhere is this issue more critical than in Asia and the Pacific. The United States and Asia have much in common in terms of their basic energy situation. Both regions have substantial coal reserves, but both must import large [...]
Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future
Product Description Climate Change is geared toward a variety of students and general readers who seek the real science behind global warming. Exquisitely illustrated, the text introduces the basic science underlying both the natural progress of climate change and the effect of human activity on the deteriorating health of our planet. Noted expert and author [...]
The Global Politics of Energy
Product DescriptionAspen Policy Books is a series devoted to developing critical new thinking on U.S. national security policy. This book is a collection of papers prepared for the 2007 summer Aspen Strategy Group conference on The Global Politics of Energy. This cross-disciplinary and high-level examination of policy strategies for addressing the challenges posed by the [...]
Clean Energy Common Sense: An American Call to Action on Global Climate Change
Product DescriptionAs America confronts global climate change, this documents the problem, sets forth solutions, and challenges each of us to do our part to embrace a clean and sustainable energy future, today and in the years ahead. Doing so, she convincingly argues, will help put Americans back to work, reduce our reliance on foreign oil [...]