Arctic doom, Arctic boom : the geopolitics of climate change in the Arctic / Barry Scott Zellen ; foreword by Walter J. Hickel ; foreword by Daniel J. Moran
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Foreword; 1 Introduction: Arctic Spring; 2 The Geopolitics of Snow and Ice; 3 An Arctic Imperative?; 4 From Cold War to Warming Earth; 5 Polar Uncertainties; 6 The End of the Arctic; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-223) and index
