Energy Resource Conflict

Adrah N. Parafiniuk teaches at Northern Arizona University, USA. He is the author of 108 Steps to Fix the Planet: A Guide to a Healthier, Happier, and More Joyous Life (2013). He has published work on energy and green gilding as well as on motivations for sustainable behaviors and pro-environmental behaviors. Zachary A. Smith was Regents' Professor at Northern Arizona University, USA. Smith was widely published, including such works as The Environmental Policy Paradox, 8th Edition (2022), Globalization (2008) (with Justin Ervin) and Protecting Our Environment: Lessons from the European Union (2005) (with Janet R. Hunter).

Introduction

Part I
Chapter 1: Origins and Causes
Overview
The History of Energy Types
Location, Location, Location: Origins of the Oil Industry
Chapter 2: Current Impact and Linkages
Overview
Modern War
Current Geopolitical Conflict
Local Conflict
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Responses
Introduction
International Responses
Technological Responses
Carbon Storage
Intensive and Expensive Geoengineering
Economic Changes
Industry Responses to Climate Change
National Responses
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Future Implications
Introduction
Consequences of Little to No Change in Energy Resource Use
Future Energy Projections Based on Current Trends
Possible Major Transitions
Transitioning Countries
Chapter 5: Contributed Essays
Introduction
The Dangers of Corporate Power Concerning Climate Change by Vivian Ike
The Power of Business Corporations to Drive Energy Transformation: The RE100 Case by Haley N. Anderson
The Dirty Future of Coal by Laine Munir
Limits of Solar and Wind by Helena Solman
The Promise of Nuclear Energy by Ayesha Sadiqa

Part II: A–Z Entries
Introduction
Agricultural Revolution
Biofuels
Biomass Energy
Carbon Capture and Storage (CSS)
Carbon Footprint
Carbon Offsets
Carbon Tax/Carbon Market/Carbon Credits/Cap and Trade
Cascade Effect
Climate Engineering or Geoengineering
Coal
Common Pool Resources
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)
CO2
Crude Oil
Deepwater Drilling
Enhanced Recovery/Hydraulic Fracking/Horizontal Drilling
Forest Management
Fuel Cells
Fusion
Geothermal Energy
Greenhouse Effect and Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)
Green Revolution
Human Dispersal
Hydrocarbons and Hydrocarbon Gas Liquids
Hydroelectric Power
Hydrogen Economy
Megafauna
Milankovitch Cycles
Mineral Rights
Molten Salt Reactor (MSR)
Natural Gas
Net Zero
Nuclear Fission, Nuclear Fuel, and Nuclear Power Plants
Ocean Currents
Peat Megafires and Coal Seam Fires
Petroleum
Photovoltaics
Proven Reserves
Renewable Energy
Steam Power (Steam Engines)
Sustainability
Tar Sands/Oil Sands
Tidal Energy
Waste-to-energy (WTE)
Wave Energy
Wind Power
Zero Emissions Energy

About the Authors and Contributors
Index