Explores the crisis in the fossil fuels that define modern life. Without them, mass produced food and clothing, international travel and cars, become practically impossible. Yet our reliance on fossil fuels is responsible for massive environmental damage, and increasing economic and political instability. The international range of contributors to this book provide a truly global perspective on the dangers inherent in our over consumption of oil, gas and coal. Index, tables, 325pp, UK. PLUTO PRESS.

Case studies attempting to answer these questions: What can indigenous people do when faced with the destruction of their natural and social habitats? And how do oil companies respond to the various forms of local and indigenous resistance to their activities? The eight case studies deal with oil-producing regions in Alaska, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea and West Siberia and encompass 18 indigenous population groups. 612pp, GERMANY. LIT VERLAG.

Access to oil and natural gas, and their prices, have been axes of geo political and economic strategy for a century. This book covers the shifting structure of the global oil and gas economy. It highlights the domestic inequality, civil conflict and widespread poverty that dependence on oil exports inflicts on developing countries and the strategies of wealthy countries (especially the United States) to control oil rich regions. Includes extensive references to Algeria, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria. Index, notes, tables, 220pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

Until recently, oil companies saw the socioeconomic consequences of their operations in developing countries as beyond their control. But with mounting activist pressure at home, growing interest in corporate social responsibility, and the spiraling costs of conflict in production areas, the oil industry is now playing an increasing role in how a country's oil and gas are extracted, how its people fare, and ultimately, where the revenues go. Drawing on years of field experience and new data from corporations, NGOs, and hundreds of personal interviews, the author explores the links between oil and conflict, and changing notions and forms of corporate responsibility in three oil-dependent countries: Angola, Azerbaijan, and Sudan. Index, bib, notes, 234pp, USA. UNITED STATES INSTITUTE FOR PEACE PRESS.

New in paperback. An explosive story in which journalist Nicholas Shaxson speaks with African presidents, oil barons and ordinary citizens to expose how rich countries' oil companies exploit African nations, leaving them ravaged, corrupt, and penniless. 288pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

A study of how to provide energy services to homes without national grid connection, covering all the essentials including needs assessment, economics, technology choice, and expanding the current uses of wind technology into new areas with details all practical aspects plus related issues such as scaling up the project and business development. This book provides a concise guide to all the essential steps for setting up wind business services in developing countries. 64pp, UK. ITDG PUBLISHING, 1853395552