Book/Printed Material Burning up : a global history of fossil fuel consumption Global history of fossil fuel consumption

Title

• Burning up : a global history of fossil fuel consumption

Other Title

• Global history of fossil fuel consumption

Summary

• Recounts the history of fossil fuels' relentless rise since the mid-twentieth century, Dispelling explanations foregrounding individual consumption and arguments that population growth is the main problem, Pirani shows how fossil fuels are consumed through technological, social, and economic systems, and that these systems much change.

Names

• Pirani, Simon, 1957- author

Created / Published

• London : Pluto Press, 2018.
• ©2018

Headings

• -  Energy consumption--History
• -  Fossil fuels--Economic aspects
• -  Fossil fuels--Environmental aspects
• -  Fossil fuels--History
• -  Combustibles fossiles--Aspect de l'environnement
• -  Combustibles fossiles--Aspect économique
• -  Combustibles fossiles--Histoire
• -  43.33 natural resources management
• -  Energy consumption
• -  Fossil fuels

Genre

• Documents d'information
• History
• Informational works

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-248) and index.
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (xiv, 255 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

• TP318

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2021758466

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2021758466

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2021758466

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