Why Geography Matters Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism

Name: Why Geography Matters Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism
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ISBN: 9780195315820

ISBN-10: 0195315820

ISBN-13: 9780195315820

Edition: 2007

Authors: Harm de Blij

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Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people. Abrupt climate change may throw the global system into chaos; China will emerge as a superpower; and Islamic terrorism and insurgency will threaten vital American interests. How can we understand these and other global challenges? Harm de Blij has a simple answer: by improving our understanding of the world'sgeography.De Blij demonstrates how geography's perspectives yield unique and penetrating insights into the interconnections that mark our shrinking world. Centuries ago a surge of climate change halted China's maritime…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



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?


Epilogue


Works Cited


Index