Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations in a time of global crisis. The 'shale revolution' in oil and gas has transformed the American economy, ending the 'era of shortage', but brokering a tense truce between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Yet concern about energy's role in climate change is challenging our economy and way of life, accelerating a second energy revolution in the search for a low carbon future. World politics is being upended, as a new cold war develops between the United States and China, and the rivalry grows more dangerous with Russia, which is pivoting east toward Beijing. The South China Sea, claimed by China and the world's most critical trade route, could become the arena where the United States and China directly collide. The map of the Middle East, which was laid down after World War I, is being challenged by jihadists, revolutionary Iran, ethnic and religious clashes, and restive populations. But the region has also been shocked by the two recent oil price collapses and by the very question of oil's future in the rest of this century. In this book the author takes the reader on an utterly riveting and timely journey across the world's new map. He illuminates the great energy and geopolitical questions in an era of rising political turbulence and points to the profound challenges that lie ahead.

ENERGY POLICY --- RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES --- FOSSIL FUELS --- CLIMATIC CHANGES--ECONOMIC ASPECTS --- GEOPOLITICS--ECONOMIC ASPECTS

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"No major economy is more dependent on fossil fuel exports than Russia, yet it is unprepared for the global transition away from hydrocarbons. Thane Gustafson shows that as Russia's income shrinks, its economy will stagnate, even as global warming imposes growing costs on society. By mid-century its power will fade, reordering global politics"--

CLIMATIC CHANGES--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) --- CLIMATIC CHANGES--GOVERNMENT POLICY--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) --- Climatic changes --- Fossil fuels --- Renewable energy sources --- Government policy