The oil industry is by no means a monolithic entity. This article argues that the fragmented nature of the oil industry played a key role in oil companies’ decisions regarding their (often viewed a...

The limits to growth and development? Computer modeling, planetary limits, and the question of industrial development in the Global South, 1960s–1970s was published in Environment, Technology, and Dev...

Black and Green? Environmental Histories of the Oil Industry

Black and Green? Environmental Histories of the Oil Industry

Innovation studies scholars use the concept of ‘spillovers’ to explain how ideas and people move among firms and industries and how regions form industrial clusters. Historians of technology use di...

During the twentieth century, Iceland became a leader in geothermal energy use, with hot water and steam providing for the heating of 9 out of 10 houses and almost one-third of the electricity supp...