Earth wars : the battle for global resources /
By: Hiscock, Geoff
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BookPublisher: Singapore ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Singapore, 2012.Description: xviii, 286 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781118152881; 1118152883 (trade)Subject(s): Energy development -- Political aspects | Natural resources -- Political aspectsDDC classification: 333.7 Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 333.7 HI ER (Browse shelf) | Available | T0045721 |
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| 333.7 GR GL The global environment, natural resources, and economic growth / | 333.7 HA EN Environmental and natural resource economics : | 333.7 HA IN Introduction to environmental economics / | 333.7 HI ER Earth wars : | 333.7 JU WH What's really happening to our planet? : | 333.7 KO EN Environmental economics / | 333.7 MA EC The economics of climate change and the change of climate in economics |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-268) and index.
The four essentials : food, water, energy, metals -- Geographical flashpoints : the trouble with lines on a map -- The key players : diggers, drillers, and dealers -- Food and water : where the rivers run -- "Going out" for energy : China and India stake their claims -- Old coal still burning brightly -- Going nuclear in a post-Fukushima world -- New energy--clean, green, and expensive -- Coppery red, the colour of earth's true love -- Finding steel's essential ingredients -- U.S. energy : hail to the shale -- Japan after the deluge -- BRACQK (Brazil, Russia, Australia, Canada, Qatar, Kazakhstan) is the new BRIC -- The up and comers : Turkey, Iran, Indonesia, Mexico -- What happens next : a host of global opportunities -- Conclusion : a world so changed.
Offers an in-depth look at the Earth's resources of food, water, metals and energy, and the fight for the future economic power that is tied to them.