Why geography matters three challenges facing America : climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism
Main Author: | De Blij, Harm J. |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
c2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Why geography matters
- Reading maps and facing threats
- Earth's changeable environments
- Climate and civilization
- A future geography of human population
- The mesh of civilizations
- Red star rising: China's geopolitical gauntlet
- Terrorism's widening circle
- From terrorism to insurgency
- European superpower?
- Russia: trouble on the Eastern front
- Hope for Africa?