After the Ice

图书信息

作者	Anderson, Alun
出版社	Collins Reference
ISBN	9780061942549
出版时间	2009-12-01
字数	52.0万
分类	Collins Reference,进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

An eye-opening look at the winners and losers in the high-stakes story of Arctic transformation, from nations to natives to animals to the very landscape itself The Arctic like the canary in the coal mine has reacted more quickly and dramatically to global warming than many had anticipated. Hundreds of scientists are urgently trying to predict just how the Arctic will change and how those changes will in turn affect the rest of the planet. But plenty of other people, driven by profit rather than data, are interested as well. The riches of the world’s last virgin territory have spurred the reawakening of old geopolitical rivalries. The United States, Canada, Russia, Norway, and the Danish territory of Greenland all control areas around the Arctic Ocean. We face a new era of oil rigs and drill ships, of tankers taking shortcuts from Yokohama to Rotterdam, as well as a potential fight over the Arctic’s treasures.Alongside the winners from an open Arctic sea are the many losers, from the nomadic reindeer herders of Siberia and Scandinavia to the Inuit hunters of Alaska, Greenland, and Canada. Other creatures that rely on the vast expanses of sea ice, including seals, birds, and whales and the ecosystems within which they live may disappear to be replaced by different creatures. Combining science, business, politics, and adven-ture, Alun Anderson takes the reader to the ends of the earth for what may be the last narrative portrait of this rapidly changing land of unparalleled global significance.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Introduction

One

People

Two

Three

Ice

Four

Five

Six

Borders

Seven

Eight

Animals

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Oil and Ships

Twelve

Thirteen

Fourteen

Finale

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Sources

Notes

Searchable Terms

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher