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Security and the Environment eBook Series

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  • Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom

    The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic

    by Dr. Barry Scott Zellen ...
    Series series Security and the Environment
    An expert examination of the way climate change is transforming the Arctic environmentally, economically, and geopolitically, and how the challenges of that transformation should be met.A growing number of scientists estimate that there will be no summer ice in the Arctic by as soon as 2013. Are we approaching the "End of the Arctic?" as journalist Ed Struzik asked in 1992, or fully entering the ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • Polar Imperative

    A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America

    by Shelagh D. Grant ...
    Based on Shelagh Grant’s groundbreaking archival research and drawing on her reputation as a leading historian in the field, Polar Imperative is a compelling overview of the historical claims of sovereignty over this continent’s polar regions. This engaging, timely history examines:the unfolding implications of major climate changesthe impact of resource exploitation on the indigenous peoplesthe ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fools Rule

    Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change

    by William Marsden ...
    This eloquent, rage-inciting polemic about the global failure to deal with climate change will appeal to readers of Tim Flannery, George Monbiot and Bill McKibben - and anyone concerned with the economic and environmental future of our planet.Kyoto, 1997. Montreal, 2005. Copenhagen, 2009. Cancun, 2010. In Fools Rule, Marsden illustrates how inefficient and short-sighted political negotiations have ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • To Rule the Waves

    How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers

    by Bruce Jones ...
    From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an “important” (The Wall Street Journal) and “penetrating historical and political study” (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography.For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for supremacy. But in the nuclear ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Future History of the Arctic

    by Charles Emmerson ...
    Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain speed and consequences, the return of great power competition, the remaking of global trade ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Canada and the Changing Arctic

    Sovereignty, Security, and Stewardship

    by Franklyn Griffiths, Rob Huebert, P. Whitney Lackenbauer ...
    Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State and non-state actors who look to the region and its resources with varied agendas have started to pay attention. Do new geopolitical dynamics point to a competitive and inherently conflictual “race for resources”? Or will the Arctic become a region ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Unfreezing the Arctic

    Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands

    by Andrew Stuhl ...
    This account of a region transformed—and threatened—offers "a timely historical reflection on the important social role of science and scientists."— Historical GeographyIn recent years, environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a leading indicator of climate change. While climate change has unleashed profound transformations in the region, many commentators mislabel them as ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breaking the Ice

    Canada, Sovereignty, and the Arctic Extended Continental Shelf

    by Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon ...
    Series Book 3 - Contemporary Canadian Issues
    The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017The Arctic seabed, with its vast quantities of undiscovered resources, is the twenty-first century’s frontier.In Breaking the Ice: Canada, Sovereignty and the Arctic Extended Continental Shelf, Arctic policy expert Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon examines the political, legal, and scientific aspects of Canada’s efforts to delineate its Arctic extended continental shelf. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground

    An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska

    by Elizabeth Marino ...
    With three roads and a population of just over 500 people, Shishmaref, Alaska seems like an unlikely center of the climate change debate. But the island, home to Iñupiaq Eskimos who still live off subsistence harvesting, is falling into the sea, and climate change is, at least in part, to blame. While countries sputter and stall over taking environmental action, Shishmaref is out of time ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Breaking Through

    Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic

    Edited by Wilfrid Greaves, P. Whitney Lackenbauer ...
    Globalization, climate change, and increased geopolitical competition are having a profound impact on the Arctic, affecting how we understand both sovereignty and security within the region. In Breaking Through, a diverse group of emerging and established scholars examine Arctic sovereignty and security, rarely examined together, and present a theoretically robust study of Arctic sovereignty and ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Global Warring

    How Environmental, Economic and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map

    by Cleo Paskal ...
    In a perfect storm, the environment, the global economic system and geopolitics are all undergoing rapid, uncontrolled change. In the same way that the climate is in a state of flux, exhibiting erratic behavior before settling into a new norm, in the wake of the global economic crisis, many of the assumptions about the Western economic system have been destroyed, which leads to some troubling ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • International Law and the Arctic

    by Michael Byers ...
    Series Book 103 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Climate change and rising oil prices have thrust the Arctic to the top of the foreign policy agenda and raised difficult issues of sovereignty, security and environmental protection. Improved access for shipping and resource development is leading to new international rules on safety, pollution prevention and emergency response. Around the Arctic, maritime boundary disputes are being negotiated ... Read more

    $38.59 USD