Oiling The Urban Economy

Author : Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317682750
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oiling the Urban Economy written by Franklin Obeng-Odoom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a critical analysis of the ‘resource curse’ doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa’s new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. It seeks answers to the following questions: In what ways did the city come into existence? What changes to property rights are oil prospecting, explorations, and production introducing in the 21st century? How do the effects vary across different social classes and spectrums? To what extent are local and national institutions able to shape, restrain, and constrain trans-national oil-related accumulation and its effects on property in land, property in housing (residential, leisure, and commercial), and property in labour? How do these processes connect with the entire urban system in Ghana? This book shows how institutions of varying degrees of power interact to govern land, housing, and labour in the city, and analyses how efficient, sustainable, and equitable the outcomes of these interactions are. It is a comprehensive account of the tensions and contradictions in the main sectors of the urban economy, society, and environment in the booming Oil City and will be of interest to urban economists, development economists, real estate economists, Africanists and urbanists.

Author : Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317682769
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oiling the Urban Economy written by Franklin Obeng-Odoom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a critical analysis of the ‘resource curse’ doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa’s new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. It seeks answers to the following questions: In what ways did the city come into existence? What changes to property rights are oil prospecting, explorations, and production introducing in the 21st century? How do the effects vary across different social classes and spectrums? To what extent are local and national institutions able to shape, restrain, and constrain trans-national oil-related accumulation and its effects on property in land, property in housing (residential, leisure, and commercial), and property in labour? How do these processes connect with the entire urban system in Ghana? This book shows how institutions of varying degrees of power interact to govern land, housing, and labour in the city, and analyses how efficient, sustainable, and equitable the outcomes of these interactions are. It is a comprehensive account of the tensions and contradictions in the main sectors of the urban economy, society, and environment in the booming Oil City and will be of interest to urban economists, development economists, real estate economists, Africanists and urbanists.

Author : Frederick R. E. Durr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urban Economy written by Frederick R. E. Durr and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George A. Olah
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3527644636
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Oil and Gas written by George A. Olah and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is currently consuming about 85 million barrels of oil a day, and about two-thirds as much natural gas equivalent, both derived from non-renewable natural sources. In the foreseeable future, our energy needs will come from any available alternate source. Methanol is one such viable alternative, and also offers a convenient solution for efficient energy storage on a large scale. In this updated and enlarged edition, renowned chemists discuss in a clear and readily accessible manner the pros and cons of humankind's current main energy sources, while providing new ways to overcome obstacles. Following an introduction, the authors look at the interrelationship of fuels and energy, and at the extent of our non-renewable fossil fuels. They also discuss the hydrogen economy and its significant shortcomings. The main focus is on the conversion of CO2 from industrial as well as natural sources into liquid methanol and related DME, a diesel fuel substitute that can replace LNG and LPG. The book is rounded off with an optimistic look at future possibilities. A forward-looking and inspiring work that vividly illustrates potential solutions to our energy and environmental problems.

Author : Edwin S. Mills
Publisher : Baltimore : Published for Resources for the Future by Johns Hopkins Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Structure of the Urban Economy written by Edwin S. Mills and published by Baltimore : Published for Resources for the Future by Johns Hopkins Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on decentralization of metropolitan areas as one of the key issues of urban economics.

Author : Harold M. Hochman
Publisher : New York : Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393092431
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urban Economy written by Harold M. Hochman and published by New York : Norton. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John R Miron
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319843186
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organization of Cities written by John R Miron and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities. It reviews and reinterprets fundamental theoretical models that explain how the operation of markets in equilibrium shapes the scale and organization of the commercial city in a mixed market economy within a liberal state. These models link markets for the factors of production, markets for investment and fixed capital formation, markets for transportation, and markets for exports in equilibrium both within the urban economy and the rest of the world. In each case, the model explains the urban economy by revealing how assumptions about causes and structures lead to predictions about scale and organization outcomes. By simplifying and contrasting these models, this book proposes another interpretation: that governance and the urban economy are outcomes negotiated by political actors motivated by competing notions of commonwealth and the individual desire for wealth and power. The book grounds its analysis in economic history, explaining the rise of commercial cities and the emergence of the urban economy. It then turns to factors of production, export, and factor markets, introducing and parsing the Mills model, breaking it down into its component parts and creating a series of simpler models that can better explain the significance of each economic assumption. Simplified models are also presented for real estate and fixed capital investment markets, transportation, and land use planning. The book concludes with a discussion of linear programming and the Herbert- Stevens and the Ripper-Varaiya models. A fresh presentation of the theories behind urban economics, this book emphasizes the links between state and economy and challenges the reader to see its theories in a new light. As such, this book will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of economics, public policy, public administration, urban policy, and city and urban planning. >

Author : Xiaoyi Mu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911116295
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Oil and Gas written by Xiaoyi Mu and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Milton Santos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shared Space written by Milton Santos and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilbur Richard Thompson
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Preface to Urban Economics written by Wilbur Richard Thompson and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: