How Political Activists See Offshore Oil Development
Author : Eric R. A. N. Smith
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Coastal zone management
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Author : Eric R. A. N. Smith
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Coastal zone management
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Author : William R. Freudenburg
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780791418819
In some coastal regions of the United States, such as western Louisiana, offshore oil development has long been welcomed. In others, such as northern California, it has been vehemently opposed. This book explores the reasons behind this paradox, looking at the people, the regions, and the issues in sociological and historical contexts. What has been in very short supply on this issue, as in a growing number of other cases of technological gridlock, is balanced analysis. That is what this book provides. The authors' case studies, derived from interviews with Louisiana and California residents and from environmental impact statements, demonstrate that easy answers are not the most valid ones. The region that should be considered unusual, they find, is coastal Louisiana, where historical, social, and environmental factors combine to favor the offshore oil industry. But this combination of factors, they argue, is unlikely to be found in other coastal regions of the U.S. in the near future.
Author : Joan Goldstein
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Government publications
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Author : United States. Offshore Minerals Management
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Continental shelf
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Author : Eric R. A. N. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780742510265
Using the state of California as a model, Eric Smith explores how much the public understands energy policy, what the public wants officials to do about U.S. energy problems, and how governments will cope with energy shortages in the future.
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Page : 794 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Juliet E. Carlisle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190264640
Introduction -- Energy crises and agenda setting -- Public opinion during an energy crisis -- The question of trust -- The Yom Kippur Arab-Israeli War: the crisis of 1973-74 -- The Iranian oil crisis: 1979-1980 -- The Persian Gulf War: 1990-1991 -- The era of peak oil energy prices: the oil shocks of 1999-2000 and 2007-08 -- Conclusion
Author : Charles Frederick Lester
Publisher :
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Offshore oil industry
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Author : Laurie Adkin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1442699426
First World Petro-Politics examines the vital yet understudied case of a first world petro-state facing related social, ecological, and economic crises in the context of recent critical work on fossil capitalism. A wide-ranging and richly documented study of Alberta’s political ecology – the relationship between the province’s political and economic institutions and its natural environment – the volume tackles questions about the nature of the political regime, how it has governed, and where its primary fractures have emerged. Its authors examine Alberta’s neo-liberal environmental regulation, institutional adaptation to petro-state imperatives, social movement organizing, Indigenous responses to extractive development, media framing of issues, and corporate strategies to secure social license to operate. Importantly, they also discuss policy alternatives for political democratization and for a transition to a low-carbon economy. The volume’s conclusions offer a critical examination of petro-state theory, arguing for a comparative and contextual approach to understanding the relationships between dependence on carbon extraction and the nature of political regimes.