Oil.
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| Author / Creator: | Bridge, Gavin. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Newark : Polity Press, 2017. |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( 252 p.) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Resources Ser. Resources Ser. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11328435 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Nature of a Political Resource; The condition of the resource: growing uncertainty, declining quality; The shape of demand: lighter, cleaner, Asian; Actors: states, firms, and civil society; The geopolitics of the hydrocarbon chain; Conclusion; Notes; 2 Capturing Oil; States: oil landlords, national champions, and regulators; Firms: integration, independents, and the precariousness of "Big Oil"; Negotiating access: resource-holding states versus resource-seeking firms; Extending the network; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Marketing Oil
- Standardizing productsManaging abundance; Oil markets and shifts in pricing power; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Living With Oil; Making a living; Oil as life: the soft power of petroculture; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Securing Oil; Oil wars; Energy security; Availability; Accessibility; Affordability; Acceptability; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Developing Through Oil; Accounting for oil in development; Accounting for environmental and social costs; Oil revenues: who gets what?; The "oil curse"; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Governing Oil; Addressing the oil governance deficit; Oil governance actors and institutions
- The (real) politics of oil governanceConclusion; Notes; 8 Better and Beyond: The Future of Oil; Oil's new reality; Responding to the new reality; Four priorities; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Readings; Index; End User License Agreement
