Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313380129)

An expert examination of the way climate change is transforming the Arctic environmentally, economically, and geopolitically, and how the challenges of that transformation should be met.

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.

Author: Barry Scott Zellen
ISBN-10: 0313380120
ISBN-13: 9780313380129
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/06/2009 pg. 22
Choice 05/01/2010
Scitech Book News 12/01/2009 pg. 51