Northern Sea Route
Northern Transportation Company Limited
Northern Waters Complex
Northwest Passage
Northwest Staging Route
Northwest Territories
Norway: and aboriginal peoples; and the Arctic Council; and Arctic resources; and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS); and demographic trends; and human settlement patterns; and immigration policy; and the “New North,” and NORC collaborations; and oil reserves; and power transmission systems; and territorial boundaries; and UNCLOS; and water resources; and winter roads
Novy Urengoy
Noyabr’sk
nuclear power
Nunavut Territory
Obama, Barack
obshchiny
oceanography
Ogallala aquifer
oil: and Arctic resources; embargoes; and the Industrial Revolution; and oil sands; price of; proven reserves; and water resources
Olsen, Moses
OmniTrax Inc.
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
Out of Gas (Goodstein)
Pacific Decadal Oscillation
Pacific Institute
Pakistan
Panama Canal
Papua New Guinea
Parsons, Ralph M.
Pasqualetti, Martin
Patrushev, Nikolai
Pearce, Fred
permafrost: and carbon storage; and climate change; continuous permafrost; and glaciers; and global warming and lake formation; and load bearing capacity; and U.S. policy
photovoltaics
Pika, Aleksandr
plant biomass
plug-in electric cars
Poland
polar bears
politics: and Arctic resources; and Arctic transportation; and ethanol subsidies; and expert political judgment; and global warming; and human settlement; and inertia of global forces; and the North Pole; and oil supplies
The Population Bomb (Ehrlich)
population growth. See demography; specific countries
Portugal
Powell, James Lawrence
Primorsky Territory
Prince Edward Island
Pripyat, Ukraine
protectionism
Prudhoe Bay
Putin, Vladimir
Qatar
Quantification Settlement Agreement
Québec
Queen Elizabeth Island
radiation
railroads
rain forests
rainfall
Reagan, Ronald
RechargeIt initiative
regional corporations
renewable energy resources. See also specific energy types
Republic of Korea
reserve-to-production ratios
reservoirs
resource demand. See also specific resource types: and aboriginal peoples; and the Arctic economy; connection to other global forces; and the economic slowdown; and electric vehicles; and Far East Russia; as global force; historical debate on; and human settlement patterns; and hydrocarbon cities; and inertia of global forces; mineral depletion rates; and prospects for NORCs; and proven resource levels; and renewable energy; and reserve levels; and the resource curse; and the Russian Far East; and traditional resources; and urbanization; and water consumption; and West Siberian Lowlands
Resource Wars (Klare)
Reykjavik, Iceland
Ricardo, David
ringed seals
Río Negro
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (Klare)
risk assessment
rivers. See specific river names
Road of Bones
Rodriguez, Ernesto
Roosevelt, Franklin
Russia and the Russian Federation: and aboriginal peoples; and aging populations; and the Arctic Council; and Arctic islands; and Arctic resources; and Arctic transportation; and climate distribution; and coal resources; and crop yields; and demographic trends; and economic growth models; and endangered species; and the Far East; and fertility rates; and gas and oil reserves; and global warming; and human settlement patterns; and immigration policy; and infrastructure development; and natural gas resources; and the “New North,” and North Pole expeditions; and population declines; and prospects for NORCs; and shifting economic power; and the Siberian Curse; and territorial boundaries; and UNCLOS; and water resources; and West Siberian Lowlands; and winter roads; and xenophobia
Sahara Desert
Sakha Republic
Sakhalin Island
Salazar, Ken
Salisbury, Joe
Sámi people
Sanikiluaq, Canada
sanitation
satellite technology
Saudi Arabia
Scandinavia
Schlesinger, James
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Science
Scott, Allen
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
sea ice: and albedo effect; and Antarctica; decline of; and global warming; multiyear ice; and ocean currents; and sea levels; and shipping
sea levels: at-risk cities; and climate change; and glaciers; and sea ice; and urbanization
Sea of Okhotsk
sea surface temperatures (SST)
Seager, Richard
Serreze, Mark
Sheutiapik, Elisapee
Shiklomanov, Igor Alexander
Shiklomanov, Nikolay
shipping
Shishmaref, Alaska
Sibaral
Siberia
Siberian Curse
Silent Spring (Carson)
Simmons, Matt
Simon, Julian
Singapore
Singh, Harnarayan
Singh, Parminder
slum cities
smart grids
Smith, Adam
snowpack
solar power
Somalia
Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland
Sonoran Desert
South Africa
South America. See also specific countries
South Kara Sea
South Korea
South Ossetia
South-to-North Water Diversion project
Soviet Union. See also Russia and the Russian Federation
Spain
Stalin, Joseph
State Water Project
Stern Report
Stirling, Ian
storm surges
Straits of Hormuz
Streletskiy, Dmitry
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sudan
Suez Canal
sugarcane ethanol
sulfur dioxide
super-regions
surface water
Swaziland
Sweden: and aboriginal peoples; and the Arctic Council; and Arctic resources; and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS); culture of; and demographic trends; and human settlement patterns; and melting permafrost; and natural resource consumption; and the “New North,” and NORC collaborations; and North Pole expeditions; and nuclear power; and territorial boundaries; and UNCLOS; and winter roads
synthetic natural gas (SNG)
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
technology: arctic sea ice mapping; and ethanol production; as global force; and global warming; and hydrogen fuel cells; and nuclear power; and satellites; and smart power grids; and solar power; and tar sand extraction; and urbanization; and water resources; and wind power
terrorism
Thailand
Thatcher, Margaret
thermal expansion of water
thermohaline circulation
Thompson, Lonnie
Three Mile Island
Tibet
Tibetan Plateau
tidal power
Tigris-Euphrates River system
Tolko Industries
trade
Trans-Siberian
Railroad
transboundary rivers
transmission of power
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Tromso, Norway
tropical storms
troposphere
Truman, Harry
tundra. See also permafrost
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (Simmons)
Udall, Stewart
Ukraine
UN Commission for the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS)
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
UN Population Division
UN Security Council
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom. See also Britain
United Nations
United States: and aboriginal peoples; aging population of; and the Arctic Council; and Arctic islands; and Arctic policy; and Arctic resources; and Arctic transportation routes; and Canadian relations; and coal resources; and concentrated solar thermal (CSP) power; and demographic trends; and economic growth models; and ethanol production; and global warming; and globalization; immigration policy of; and natural gas resources; and the “New North,” and NORCs; and North Pole expeditions; and nuclear power; and power transmission systems; and sea levels; and shifting economic power; and the Siberian Curse; and UNCLOS; and water resources; and wind power
urbanization: and aging populations; and the Arctic; and climate change; and economic growth; and energy consumption; pace of; and prospects for NORCs; and resource supplies; and sea levels; and shifting economic power; and the “twenty-first century” city; and water resources
U.S. Army
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. Climate Change Action Partnership
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Committee
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
U.S. Minerals and Management Service
U.S. National Intelligence Council
U.S. National Science Foundation
Uzbekistan
Vancouver, British Colombia
Varlomov, Alexei
Venezuela
Verkhoyansk, Russia
Vietnam
Vikings
volcanoes
Volta River
Vörösmarty, Charlie
Walmart
warfare
Washington Consensus
Water Follies (Glennon)
water resources: and agriculture; aquifers; and climate change; crises related to; and drought; and energy consumption; export projects; and foreign policy; and global water stress; and groundwater pumping; and hydropower; importance of; and the Intertropical Convergence Zone; large water projects; measurement of; and population growth; and privatization; prospects for; and runoff; and sanitation; and snowpack and glaciers; and transboundary rivers; and urbanization; and virtual water trade
WaterGAP
Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
weather patterns. See also climate change
Wellinghoff, Jeff
wells
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
West Bank
West Siberia
When the Rivers Run Dry (Pearce)
wildfires
wildlife
Williamson, John
wind power
winter roads
Wolf, Aaron
women’s empowerment
World Bank
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World War I,
World War II,
World Water Council
xenophobia
Yakut people
Yakutsk
Yamal Peninsula
Yemen
Yongwei Sheng
Younger Dryas event
Yucca Mountain
Yugakir people
Yukon Territory
Yupik people
Zimbabwe
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
CHAPTER 1 - Martell’s Hairy Prize
PART ONE - THE PUSH
CHAPTER 2 - A Tale of Teeming Cities
CHAPTER 3 - Iron, Oil, and Wind
CHAPTER 4 - California Browning, Shanghai Drowning
PART TWO - THE PULL
CHAPTER 5 - Two Weddings and a Computer Model
CHAPTER 6 - One if by Land, Two if by Sea
CHAPTER 7 - The Third Wave
CHAPTER 8 - Good-bye Harpoon, Hello Briefcase
PART THREE - ALTERNATE ENDINGS
CHAPTER 9 - The Pentagon Report
CHAPTER 10 - The New North
NOTES
CREDITS
Acknowledgements
INDEX
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