Risk and Uncertainty in the Changing Global Energy Market
Subtitle: Implications for the Gulf (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research)
Publisher: Emirates Center for Strategic Studies
Published: August 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9789948005735
Subjects: Energy industries & utilities; Science/Mathematics; Politics - Current Events; Energy industries; Energy Economics; Energy Policy (Economic Aspects); Public Policy - Economic Policy; Science; Politics / Current Events; International Relations - General; Business/Economics; Industries - Energy Industries; Energy policy; Political Science / International Relations; Risk assessment; Congresses; Energy; Asia; European Union countries
First sentence: Soon after the invention of the steam engine in the 1860s, when the Industrial Revolution started to replace the toil of humans and beasts with nature's energy sources, a bright future seemed certain for humankind.