Cold Water Oil - Offshore Petroleum Cultures (Paperback)

Fiona Polack, Danine Farquharson

Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities

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- Illuminates ignored histories, influential contemporary narratives, and emerging energy and environmental futures - Centres on North Atlantic and Arctic regions; the continuing but often strongly contested pursuit of oil and gas in frigid, tumultuous, and environmentally sensitive seas enforces the lengths to which corporations and governments will go to maintain the centrality of fossil fuels -Focuses on the cultural, social, and ecological implications of oil and gas extraction in the oceanic territories of Canada, Norway, the UK, Russia, the US, and the Inupiat of Alaska at a time of profound global uncertainty

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Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Environmental Humanities
Release date:	December 2021
First published:	2022
Editors:	Fiona Polack • Danine Farquharson
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	274
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-90392-3
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Professional & Technical > Energy technology & engineering > Nuclear power & engineering Books > Professional & Technical > Energy technology & engineering > Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Energy industries & utilities > Petroleum & oil industries Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming Promotions
LSN:	0-367-90392-X
Barcode:	9780367903923