Energy and Mineral Resource Systems
An Introduction

This book is an introduction to the energy and resources systems that influence all of our lives.

B. A. Tapp (Author), J. R. Watkins (Author)

9780521316163, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 August 1990

160 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1 cm, 0.238 kg

The supply of energy and raw materials has become an increasingly important topic of public debate. This book is an introduction to the energy and resources systems that influence all of our lives. The authors analyse as a system the role of energy usage in the human environment and discuss the political and economic structure involved. Mineral resources are analysed in terms of international and national systems including a section on the technologies of extraction and production. By considering the historical, political, and economic factors that determine these systems, the authors are able to discuss possible future prospects and solutions to the problem of supply.

Preface
Introduction
Part I. The Energy Resource system: 1. energy in the human environment
2. The changing historical perspectives of energy supply
3. Projected global and Australian energy requirements
4. Energy sources
Part II. The Mineral Resource System: 6. Mineral resources
7. Mineral resources in the global context
8. Political, social and economic factors in mineral resource systems
Part III. Resource Evaluation: 9. Exploration technologies
10. Some thought for the future.

Subject Areas: Geology & the lithosphere [RBG]