Subject: Technology & Engineering / Power Resources / Fossil Fuels

Subject: Technology & Engineering / Power Resources / Fossil Fuels

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Energy Capitals

|9780822962663|Local Impact, Global Influence| Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As Energy Capitals demonstrates, the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels has proven to be a mixed blessing in many of the cities and regions where it has occurred. With case studies from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Africa, and Australia, this volume views a range of older and more recent energy capitals, contrasts their evolutions, and explores why some capitals were able to influence global trends in energy production and distribution while others failed to…

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