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Author
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In a world struggling to adapt to seismic social and environmental changes, the time is now for businesses to prioritise creating local conditions of peace. This book builds on original research foregrounding 'peace' as a core business outcome for natural resources industries. Especially in non-warlike situations where natural resources industries have exacerbated or caused conflict, foregrounding peace as a core business outcome can bring substantial...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Renowned energy expert Michael T. Klare provides an invaluable account of the new and increasingly dangerous competition for the world's dwindling natural resources. Arguing that the world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion -- one that goes beyond "peak oil" to encompass shortages of coal and uranium, copper and lithium, water, and arable land -- Klare shows how the desperate hunt for raw materials is forcing governments and corporations...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The crisis of civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system. Weaving together archival film footage and animations, film-maker Dean Puckett, animator Lucca Benney and international security analyst Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed - author of A user's guide to the crisis...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
With all of the Earth's habitable areas already in use, the desperate hunt for supplies has now reached the final frontiers. As Klare explains, this frenzy of extreme exploration and acquisition carries grave consequences. With resource extraction growing more complex, the environmental risks are becoming increasingly severe.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Tells the story of the recent history of Latin America as viewed through the prism of the region's valuable commodities such as oil, gold, avocados and bananas, and how the historical plunder of the region's resources still persists.
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