corporate age -- Coal, oil and a faster rate of change -- Pacific tsunami -- A rapidly changing world

and usage of individual feedstocks, such as wood and sugar starches, oil crops, industrial biomass

vulnerability to diminishing supplies and high prices of oil. Ships, trucks, and trains are the backbone of

Uprisings, focusing on issues of economic growth, inequality, the impact of oil, and the unfolding political

Oil Prices and Conflicts 17 The New Environment: Lower Oil Prices 17 Fiscal Consolidation and Conflict

/ Zuozhuo Zhao, Zhihai Zhang -- Optimizing oil production / Yixiao Huang, Lei Zhao, Simin Huang -- Ways of

under severe economic strains. This is particularly the case for oil exporters whose near-term prospects

sectors, like agriculture and manufacturing. It is also asked how oil-exporting countries can strengthen

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this important economic sector. The focus is on metal and non-metallic commodities rather than oil

-1980s : oil shocks and imports from Japan -- The 1990s : lean production, mergers and acquisitions

security. It covers all energy sectors – coal, oil, gas, renewables; international relations with all major