Global warring : how environmental, economic, and political crises will redraw the world map / Cleo Paskal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paskal, Cleo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics--Environmental aspects.

World politics--21st century--Environmental aspects.

World politics.

Geopolitics.

Physical Description:

280 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction: Been there, done that, and all I got were these lousy extinctions

The USS Sieve : how environmental change is drilling holes in the ship of state. The coming storm

The new geopolitical icebergs ; or, How the north was lost. Life on the no longer permanent permafrost

The global economy : waiting for the ship to come in

A short history of modern geopolitics, as seen from the deck of a ship

The great cold rush of '08

Precipitating change in Asia and beyond : how China, India, and the West are trying to make friends in interesting times. Today's weather : intolerable with periods of uninhabitable

The story so far

Interesting times, narrowing options

The turbulent Pacific : how rising sea levels could wash away whole countries and swamp the global ship of state. Building a geopolitical ark

Drawing lines in the water

Fighting over Atlantis

Conclusion: Weathering change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230621813

9780230621817

OCLC:

406162560