"This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction. Resources play a crucial role in the contemporary economy and society, required in the production of a vast range of consumer products and are at the core of geopolitical...

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction; Consumption and environmental sustainability; Looking into the future: growth in consumption and its global effects; Linking local consumption to global environmental...

"Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures is a collection of essays examining how societies conceive of fossil fuel extraction in the inhospitable but fragile waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Around a third of the world's oil and gas is produced from beneath the ocean floor,...

Land use conflict and the role of justice -- Theories of environmental justice -- The Bulga case study -- The Namoi catchment case study : Part 1 : coal mining on the Liverpool Plains -- The Namoi catchment case study : Part 2 : coal seam gas exploration in the Narrabri Shire -- The Mercellus...

"This volume investigates how mining affects societies and communities in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan. As ex-Soviet states, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan share history, culture and transitions to democracy. Most importantly, both are mineral-rich countries on China's frontier and epi-centres of resource...

Foreword / J. Rotmans -- Prologue / J. Köhler and G. Holtz -- Making it a science : aspirations and hesitations of transitions research / F.J. de Haan -- Modelling and social science : problems and promises / F. Bianchi and F. Squazzoni -- Modelling and multi-level perspective : the MATISSE...

The first formal world models -- Comparison between World3 scenarios and historical data -- Welcome to the real world! -- The evolution of economic thinking and system modelling techniques -- The ERRE model -- ERRE database, statistical validation and stress test scenarios.