Browsing by Keywords "Petroleum"

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The common and uncommon political economies of water and oil ‘wars’

Williams, P. A. (Frank Cass Publishers, 2003)

This article compares the political economies of water and oil conflicts. It suggests that the ‘common pool resource’ (CPR) framework only partially explains the prototypically ‘upstream-downstream’ disputes over flowing ...
Production and structural characterization of biosurfactant produced by newly isolated staphylococcus xylosus STF1 from petroleum contaminated soil

Keskin, N. O. S.; Han, D.; Ozkan A.D.; Angun, P.; Umu, O. C. O.; Tekinay, T. (Elsevier BV, 2015)

Petroleum-contaminated soil was used to isolate and characterize biosurfactant producing bacteria. The strain could produce higher amount of biosurfactant in medium supplemented with motor oil as sole source of carbon and ...
The resource curse and child mortality, 1961–2011

Wigley, S. (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)

There is now an extensive literature on the adverse effect of petroleum wealth on the political, economic and social well-being of a country. In this study we examine whether the so-called resource curse extends to the ...