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Arctic doom, Arctic boom : the geopolitics of climate change in the Arctic /
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?...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
Praeger,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Security and the environment.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-223) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780313380136 0313380139 0313380120 9780313380129 1282338862 9781282338869 9786612338861 6612338865 |