Gavin Bridge & Philippe Le Billon 
Oil [EPUB ebook] 

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Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power, and market growth. The legacy of this age of plenty includes declining conventional oil reserves, volatile prices, climate change, and enduring poverty in many oil-rich countries. The politics of oil are now at a turning point, and its future will not be like its past.
In this in-depth primer to one of the world’s most significant industries, authors Gavin Bridge and Philippe Le Billon take a fresh look at the contemporary political economy of oil. Going beyond simple assertions of peak oil and an oil curse, they point to an industry reordered by global shifts in demand toward Asia, growing reliance on unconventional reserves, international commitments to reduce carbon emissions, a growing campaign for fossil fuel divestment, and violent political struggles in many producer states.
As a new geopolitics of oil emerges, the need for effective global oil governance becomes imperative. Highlighting the growing influence of civil society and attentive to the efforts of firms and states to craft new institutions, this fully updated second edition identifies the challenges and opportunities to curtail price volatility, curb demand and the growth of dirty oil, decarbonize energy systems, and improve governance in oil-producing countries.

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Table of Content

Contents
List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Nature of a Political Resource
2 Capturing Oil
3 Marketing Oil
4 Living With Oil
5 Securing Oil
5 Developing Through Oil
6 Governing Oil
8 Better and Beyond: The Future of Oil
Notes
Selected Readings
Index

About the author

Gavin Bridge is Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University.
Philippe Le Billon is Professor in the Department of Geography and Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 288 ● ISBN 9781509511761 ● File size 1.9 MB ● Publisher John Wiley & Sons ● Published 2017 ● Edition 2 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5367311 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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