Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic (Security and the Environment)

✍ Scribed by Barry Scott Zellen

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A growing number of scientists estimate that there will be no summer ice in the Arctic by as soon as 2013. Are we approaching the "End of the Arctic?" as journalist Ed Struzik asked in 1992, or fully entering the "Age of the Arctic," as Arctic expert Oran Young predicted in 1986? Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic looks at the uncertainty at the top of the world as the shrinking of the polar ice cap opens up new sea lanes and the vast hydrocarbon riches of the Arctic seafloor to commercial development and creates environmental disasters for Arctic biota and indigenous peoples. Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom explores the geopolitics of the Arctic from a historical as well as a contemporary perspective, showing how the warming of the Earth is transforming our very conception of the Arctic. In addition to addressing economic and environmental issues, the book also considers the vital strategic role of the region in our nation's defenses.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
1 Introduction: Arctic Spring......Page 14
2 The Geopolitics of Snow and Ice......Page 20
3 An Arctic Imperative?......Page 58
4 From Cold War to Warming Earth......Page 82
5 Polar Uncertainties......Page 116
6 The End of the Arctic......Page 150
Notes......Page 178
Bibliography......Page 208
A......Page 238
C......Page 239
H......Page 240
L......Page 241
N......Page 242
P......Page 243
U......Page 244
Z......Page 245