Public Health and Medicine in an Age of Energy Scarcity
The Case of Petroleum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11035546 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian S Schwartz (0000-0002-0739-9865), Cindy L Parker, Jeremy Hess, Howard Frumkin (0000-0001-7079-3534) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1560-1567 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.test.2010.205187 |
| OpenAlex | W4230301267 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 44 |
Petroleum supplies have heretofore been abundant and inexpensive, but the world petroleum production peak is imminent, and we are entering an unprecedented era of petroleum scarcity. This fact has had little impact on policies related to climate, energy, the built environment, transportation, food, health care, public health, and global health. Rising prices are likely to spur research and drive efficiency improvements, but such innovations may be unable to address an increasing gap between supply and demand. The resulting implications for health and the environment are explored in the articles we have selected as additional contributions in this special issue. Uncertainty about the timing of the peak, the shape of the production curve, and decline rates should not delay action. The time for quick, decisive, comprehensive action is now.
Action (physics) · Business · Climate change · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Health care · Market economy · Microeconomics · Natural resource economics · Peak oil · Petroleum · Production (economics) · Public economics · Public health · Scarcity · Ecology · Energy and Environment Impacts · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Medicine
The End of Cheap Oil
Risks of the oil transition
On the practical limits to substitution
Alternatives to conventional crude oil
Engineering complexity
The Public Health Implications of Resource Wars
Petroleum and Health Care
Petroleum Scarcity and Public Health
System Dynamics Modeling for Public Health
Peak Oil, Urban Form, and Public Health
Peak Oil, Food Systems, and Public Health
Peak Oil and Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Framing Peak Petroleum as a Public Health Problem
Learning from Evidence in a Complex World
Climate Change and Peak Oil
Low-mobility
Twilight in the Desert
An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |