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Earth wars : the battle for global resources /
"A fascinating insight into the global battle for our energy future. The global competition for scarce natural resources that pits the West against the super-hot economies of China and India, plus a clutch of other contenders including Russia, Brazil, and Indonesia, has become one of the bigges...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore ; Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons Singapore,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The four essentials : food, water, energy, metals
- Geographical flashpoints : the trouble with lines on a map
- The key players : diggers, drillers, and dealers
- Food and water : where the rivers run
- "Going out" for energy : China and India stake their claims
- Old coal still burning brightly
- Going nuclear in a post-Fukushima world
- New energy
- clean, green, and expensive
- Coppery red, the colour of earth's true love
- Finding steel's essential ingredients
- U.S. energy : hail to the shale
- Japan after the deluge
- BRACQK (Brazil, Russia, Australia, Canada, Qatar, Kazakhstan) is the new BRIC
- The up and comers : Turkey, Iran, Indonesia, Mexico
- What happens next : a host of global opportunities
- Conclusion : a world so changed.