Energy kingdoms

oil and political survival in the Persian Gulf

After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain-went from being among the world's poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To maintain support, the ruling sheikhs ...

Renewable energy

a primer for the twenty-first century

From wood to coal to oil and gas, the sources of energy on which civilization depends have always changed as technology advances. Now renewables are overtaking fossil fuels, with wind and solar energy becoming cheaper and more competitive every year. Growth in renewable energy will ...

Modern energy market manipulation

As long as commodity and securities markets have been in operation, market manipulation has been a serious concern. Now that many electricity and natural gas markets have been opened to competition, manipulation threatens to destroy the value of these markets as well. Yet market manipulation ...

Análisis económicos del ciclo de la planificación hidrológica en España (2016-201)

Este libro estudia el tratamiento de los análisis económicos que los diferentes Planes Hidrológicos de II Ciclo elaborados en España han recogido en sus Memorias y documentos anexos. El lector podrá encontrar una síntesis de las metodologías, resultados y utilización de las diferentes herramientas, que ...

Gobernanza para un sistema energético sostenible

En la época de los combustibles fósiles dos cuestiones permiten distinguir el sistema energético presente de otros que han quedado en la historia. La primera es la posibilidad de agotamiento de las fuentes de energía, con el consiguiente efecto dislocador sobre las sociedades actuales. La ...

El perfume perfecto

un año dentro de la industria del perfume en París y Nueva York

¿Cómo se hace un perfume? El autor nos lo descubre de la mano de la actriz Sarah Jessica Parker y del perfumista de Hermès, Jean-Claude Ellena, en un trabajo de campo que revela el funcionamiento de la industria del perfume en París y Nueva York ...

Carbon

Carbon is the political challenge of our time. While critical to supporting life on earth, too much carbon threatens to destroy life as we know it, with rising sea levels, crippling droughts, searing heat waves, and catastrophic floods sounding the alarm on a future now ...

Burning up

a global history of fossil fuel consumption

Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism's main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years. Most alarming of all, fossil fuel consumption has grown fastest in the ...

The economics of cars

The automotive sector represents more than a simple industry. It embodies the economic and technological power of nations, the lifestyle and consumption patterns of societies, the dynamics of urban and territorial development, and acts as a national barometer of economic success and failure. This book ...

Desafios del Sector Energético

un enfoque sectorial

La presente obra recoge los trabajos presentados, y revisados por sus autores, al V Simposio Empresarial Internacional de la Fundación para la Sostenibilidad Energética y Ambiental (FUNSEAM), a cargo de destacados expertos del ámbito empresarial e institucional. El libro parte de un dibujo de los ...

Renewables

the politics og a global energy transition

A comprehensive political analysis of the rapid growth in renewable wind and solar power, mapping an energy transition through theory, case studies, and policy. Wind and solar are the most dynamic components of the global power sector. How did this happen? After the 1973 oil ...

Can we price carbon?

A political science analysis of the feasibility and sustainability of carbon pricing, drawing from North American, European, and Asian case studies. Climate change, economists generally agree, is best addressed by putting a price on the carbon content of fossil fuels-by taxing carbon, by cap-and-trade systems ...

Taming the sun

innovations to harness solar energy and power the planet

Solar energy, once a niche application for a limited market, has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's more, its potential is nearly limitless-every hour the sun beams down more energy than the world uses in a year. But in Taming ...

La Cuarta Revolución Industrial desde una mirada ecosocial

Mires donde mires, hay alguien alabando o criticando el impacto que la interconexión tecnológica está teniendo en nuestras vidas. Pero no se trata de casos aislados o de adicción a las pantallas, sino de algo más grande. Sin que haya finalizado la Tercera Revolución Industrial ...

Trends and challenges in electricity and oil regulation

Universidad Externado de Colombia\'s Institute of Mining and Energy Law and its Research Group would like to present to the academic and professional community the work number 12 of the Collection in Mining and Energy Regulation, based on the electric and oil sector\'s ...

Crítica de la (sin)razón nuclear

Fukushima, un Chernóbil a cámara lenta

A pesar de Chernóbil, a pesar de la hecatombe de Fukushima, hoy se siguen construyendo centrales nucleares. Innecesariamente, con los peligros conocidos, con el de solador legado que representan los residuos radiactivos. Además de los urgentes cambios que son ya imprescindibles en nuestra depredadora forma ...

Burn out

the endgame for fossil fuels

An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how this and other shifts are the harbingers of ...

The publishing business

a guide to starting out and getting on

The Publishing Business, is an invaluable guide to understanding what book publishing is and what it might become. Using popular and current examples, this second edition demonstrates that, to succeed, publishers must prove their commitment to producing accurate, attractive and well edited content, their ability ...

Análisis estratégico del sector de la piedra natural en España

el caso de la provincia de Alicante

España es uno de los principales países del mundo productores de piedra natural, encontrándose uno de los focos más relevantes de actividad en la comarca alicantina del Medio Vinalopó. La crisis económica que ha afectado a España durante los últimos años de la primera década ...

The fracking debate

the risks, benefits, and uncertaintiesof the shale revolution

Daniel Raimi gives a balanced and accessible view of oil and gas development, clearly and thoroughly explaining the key issues surrounding the shale revolution. The Fracking Debate provides the evidence and context that have so frequently been missing from discussion of the future of oil ...