Essays about: "peak oil"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 42 essays containing the words peak oil.

  1. 16. Evaluation of Skåne County’s capacity to be self-sufficient in foodstuffproduction: now and for the years 2030 and 2050.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Johan Stenmark; [2015]
    Keywords : Sustainable Development; Re-localization; Local Food; Resilience; Food production; Self-sufficiency.;

    Abstract : Sweden is becoming increasingly dependent on the import of foodstuffs from a globalfood system that is unsustainable due to its responsibility for environmental degradation and itsdependency on finite resources like fertilizers and fossil fuels. The diminishing ability to be selfsufficientin a time when peak oil, climate change, environmental degradation, exponentialpopulation growth, and a troublesome global economy might reshape the structures of the currentsystems, in a not so distant future, could be a cause for great worry. READ MORE

  3. 17. Knowing the Neighbours: Post-Growth Umeå

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Joshua Taylor; [2015]
    Keywords : post-growth; umeå; norrland; urban farming; peak oil; alternative food cultures;

    Abstract : This thesis is about researching methods/testing approaches to inhabiting/existing in a post-growth Norrland, the collective term for Sweden’s most northerly counties. With neo-liberal capitalism lurching from crisis to crisis, modernity, progress and the state are in trouble. READ MORE

  4. 18. A feasibility study of Increasing Small Scale Solar Power in Sri Lanka

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för data- och elektroteknik

    Author : Hannes Hagmar; [2014]
    Keywords : Sri Lanka; distributed generation; photovoltaic power; technical feasibility; economic feasibility;

    Abstract : The following report is conducted as a feasibility study, aimed to objectively uncover the advantages and challenges of increasing the amount of small scale solar power in Sri Lanka. The demand for electricity in Sri Lanka has been steadily increasing the last few years and there is an urgent need to find new ways of generating electricity. READ MORE

  5. 19. Peak oil and the Apocalypse: Apocalyptic imaginaries as a threat to politics proper

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Emil Pull; [2014]
    Keywords : democracy; apocalyptic imaginaries; populism; post politics; Peak oil; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis will examine the discourse of peak oil understood from a post-political perspective and challenge the un-reflexive assumption of peak oil as a natural challenger to current hegemony. It will do so by constructing a theoretical framework for ‘politics proper’ through which the peak oil discourse will be assessed. READ MORE

  6. 20. Decline Curve Analysis of Shale Oil Production : The Case of Eagle Ford

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Naturresurser och hållbar utveckling

    Author : Linnea Lund; [2014]
    Keywords : shale oil; unconventional oil; shale; decline curve analysis; DCA; eagle ford;

    Abstract : Production of oil and gas from shale is often described as a revolution to energyproduction in North America. Since the beginning of this century the shale oilproduction has increased from practically zero to currently supply almost half of theU.S. oil production. READ MORE