Oil
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
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.
Série des Ressources de la Polity Séries
Cette série explore le problème urgent de la diminution des ressources mondiales et des conflits géopolitiques qui en découlent. Des experts de premier plan dissèquent les luttes intenses pour le contrôle des matières premières vitales, du pétrole à l'eau en passant par les minéraux rares. Les ouvrages offrent des analyses pointues des dynamiques de pouvoir complexes qui façonnent notre avenir et de leurs implications pour la stabilité mondiale. C'est une lecture essentielle pour quiconque s'intéresse aux relations internationales et à la durabilité.
Ordre de lecture recommandé
Fishing has played a vital role in human history and culture. But today this key resource faces a serious crisis as most species are being overfished or fished to their very limit. Governments have tried to tackle the problem with limited success. Many of their actions have been counterproductive or ineffective.
Food
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
New edition of the leading introduction to the global food trade--
Timber
- 200pages
- 7 heures de lecture
Timber is a vital resource that is all around us. It forms our homes and furniture, our disposable diapers and newspapers, and boxes our cereal and new appliances. The way we produce and consume timber, however, is changing. With international timber companies and big box discount retailers increasingly controlling through global commodity chains where and how much timber is traded, the world's remaining old-growth forests, particularly in the developing world, are under threat of disappearing - all for the price of a consumer bargain. --
Land
- 204pages
- 8 heures de lecture
Land is one of the world s most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local level to the global, we are often in conflict over the ground beneath our feet. But because human relationships to land are so complex, it can be difficult to think them through in a unified way.