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