National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Integrated Activity Plan

National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Integrated Activity Plan PDF

Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13:

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This document finalizes the Bureau of Land Management's plan for managing 8.8 million acres of public land in the Northwest portion of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The decision by Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton as documented slightly modifies the BLM's preferred management alternative, which the Bureau described in a final Environmental Impact Statement on the management plan.

Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation

Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation PDF

Author: J. Edward Gates

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-20

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1493919547

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The proposed book focuses on one of the most important issues affecting humankind in this century - Peak Oil or the declining availability of abundant, cheap energy—and its effects on our industrialized economy and wildlife conservation. Energy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st Century directly affecting wildlife conservation wherever energy extraction is a primary economic activity and indirectly through deepening economic recessions. Since cheap, abundant energy has been at the core of our industrial society, and has resulted in the technological advancements we enjoy today, the peak in world oil extraction would potentially have major impacts on civilization unless we prepare well in advance. One potential economic solution covered in the book would be a Steady State Economy with a stable population and per capita consumption, particularly in such industrialized countries as the United States. Furthermore, the lack of cheap, abundant energy directly and indirectly affects conservation efforts by professional societies and federal and state agencies, and NGOs concerned with wildlife issues. We need to recognize these potential problems and prepare, as much as possible, for the consequences stemming from them.