Drilling down: The gulf oil debacle and our energy dilemma

Drilling Down: The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-242

  Tainter, Joseph A ^a   Patzek, Tadeusz W ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; ECONOMICS; OIL SPILLS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING; DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILLS; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE; SIMULTANEOUS GROWTH; STANDARD OF LIVING;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84954574816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7677-2     Document Type: Book

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