Oil / Gavin Bridge and Philippe Le Billon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bridge, Gavin, author.

Le Billon, Philippe, author.

Series:

Resources (Polity Press)

Resources

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade.

Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

ix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2017.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The nature of a political resource

Capturing oil

Marketing oil

Living with oil

Securing oil

Developing through oil

Governing oil

Better and beyond: the future of oil.

Notes:

Originally published in 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bridge, Gavin. Oil.

ISBN:

9781509511730

1509511733

OCLC:

967919505