The Peak Oil: Myth or Impending Doom ?

Patrick Criqui ()
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Patrick Criqui: équipe EDDEN - PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - UJF - Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The purpose of this chapter is thus to review the concept of peak oil, critique its main propositions and assess the arguments advanced by oil optimists against those of peak oil. The paper begins with a presentation of the Hubbert peak theory and of some recent applications of the theory at the global level. Then it introduces a revised conceptual analysis and set of variables with a dynamic analytical framework. The third section assesses the issues behind the polarized debate between the peak community and the oil optimists.

Keywords: oil production; oil reserves (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Published in Roland Dannreuther & Voiciech Ostrowski. Global Resources : Conflict and Cooperation, Palgrave McMillan, pp.187-205, 2013, 9780230360501

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