Book Description:
This book is divided into seven chapters, an annex, and a conclusion, and they all aim towards the following objectives: to investigate how much conventional and non-conventional oil is left in the world, to examine all the different alternative energy sources and find out their different development stages, to inform economist so that they can bring together the different economic growth scenarios to find out, by considering world demand, how much oil is left in the world in qualitative terms. That is to say, how much time can we economists/politicians can buy the scientists for their development of the transition paths towards renewable energy sources with a minimum of economic and social repercussion. In the last chapter, multilateral negotiating insights are provided through game theory. In the conclusions, a long-standing economic equation is re-written in energy terms, a blueprint scenario is unveiled, and a strategy is proposed to accomplish this all-important objective.

Table of Contents:
Preface
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue


Chapter 1
THE DECISIVE FACTOR IN OUR CENTURY, pp. 1-10

Chapter 2
THE END OF THE OIL CIVILIZATION?, pp. 11-59

Chapter 3
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, pp. 61-87

Chapter 4
THE BRIDGE: THE NON-CONVENTIONAL RESERVES, pp. 89-136

Chapter 5
The Economists' Challenge, pp. 137-154

Chapter 6
AN OIL PLAN, pp. 155-168

Chapter 7
THE CASE FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION, pp. 169-190

STRATEGY AND CONCLUSIONS, pp. 191-207
Appendix
THE CASE FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION
INDEX