Oil
- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
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.
Serie de Recursos de la Polity Serie
Esta serie profundiza en el apremiante problema de la disminución de los recursos mundiales y los conflictos geopolíticos que surgen de la escasez. Expertos líderes analizan las intensas luchas por el control de productos básicos vitales, desde el petróleo y el agua hasta los minerales raros. Los libros ofrecen análisis incisivos de las complejas dinámicas de poder que dan forma a nuestro futuro y sus implicaciones para la estabilidad global. Es una lectura esencial para cualquiera preocupado por las relaciones internacionales y la sostenibilidad.
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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
- 320 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
New edition of the leading introduction to the global food trade--
Timber
- 200 páginas
- 7 horas de lectura
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
- 204 páginas
- 8 horas de lectura
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.