Visit to Liverpool University's Oil Depletion Impact Gr
Friday, December 4th, 2009
ASPO Ireland Director, Richard O'Rourke, delivered a guest lecture to third year geography undergraduates at the University of Liverpool taking the Global Oil Depletion: Evidence, Impacts, and Mitigation module.
Now in its third year, course director, Dr. Jan Bloemendal, described the course as one of the most popular in the geography department. Bloemendal is also a member of the Oil Depletion Impact Group (ODIG), a multi-disciplinary research group set up by Simon Snowden in the university'sManagement Scool.
Course Outline:
| Introduction | Bloemendal |
| Origin and distribution of oil and gas deposits; production history | Bloemendal |
| The timing of ‘peak oil’ | Bloemendal |
| Oil and geopolitics | Bloemendal |
| Peak oil and the media | Neil Gavin |
| Mitigation - introduction; peak oil and the UK; review | Bloemendal |
| Case studies of post-petroleum societies: Cuba and North Korea | Beth Ditson |
| Alternative Energy Sources | Bloemendal |
| The Transition Town Network | Pete North |
| Impacts on business I | Snowden |
| Impacts on business II | Snowden |
Included in Snowden's presentation was his recent work with the Global Energy unit in Uppsala analysing the IEA's latest oil production outlook, which wes recently covered in the Guardian newspaper.
O'Rourke's presentation can be downloaded here.
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