Tag Petroleum Extraction

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At the base of Hubbert’s Peak: Grounding the debate on petroleum scarcity

Publication date: 2010-03-03 First published in: Geoforum Authors: E. Hemmingsen Abstract: M. King Hubbert’s 1956 prediction of a ‘peak’ in US oil production has spurred a durable and divisive debate on the exhaustion of the petroleum resource. Pitting physical against…

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January 5, 2011

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An exploration of alternative measures of natural resource scarcity: the case of petroleum resources in the U.S.

Publication date: 1993-04-01 First Published in: Ecological Economics Authors: C. Cleveland Abstract: The concern about natural resource scarcity has traditionally focused on changes in the cost, quality, and availability of energy and material inputs to the production process. Ecological economists…

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November 5, 2008