The World in 2050_ Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future - Laurence C. Smith [182]
American Indians
Amur Oblast
Annan, Kofi
Annin, Peter
Antarctica
Anuka, Godwin
aquatic ecosystems
aquifers
Arabian Desert
Arctic Circle
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
Arctic Council
Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy
Arctic Ocean: and indigenous peoples; and natural resources; and river runoff; and the rule of law; and sea ice levels; and the seabed; and shipping; and UNCLOS
Argentina
Arrhenius, Svante
Asia. See specific countries
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Asian Development Bank
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Athabasca Tar Sands
Australia
Azeez, Adulkadir
Azerbaijan
Baffin Island
Baikal-Amur Mainline Railroad
Baku oil fields
Ban Ki-Moon
Bangladesh
Banks Island
Barents Sea
Barlow, Maude
Barnaby, Wendy
Barnett, Tim
Barrow, Alaska
Bartram, Jamie
Bazhenov Shale
Beaufort Sea
Belgium
Bering Sea
Bering Strait
Betancourt, Julio
biodiversity. See also wildlife
biofuels. See also ethanol
biotechnology
birth rates
bitumen
Bodman, Samuel
boreal forests
Borgerson, Scott
Box, Jason
Brakenridge, Bob
Brazil: and aging populations; and concentrated solar thermal (CSP) power; and economic growth models; and power transmission systems; and shifting economic power; and water resources
Bretton Woods Agreement
BRICs. See Brazil; China; India; Russia and the Russian Federation
Britain. See also United Kingdom
Broecker, Wallace
Brown, Gordon
Burgan oil fields
Burke, Marshall
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
California: and the Louisiana Purchase; and renewable energy; and sea levels; and water resources
Cambodia
Canada: and aboriginal peoples; and the Arctic Council; and Arctic resources; and Arctic shipping; and climate distribution; and crop yields; and demographic trends; and education; and endangered species; and foreign relations; and global warming; and human settlement patterns; and immigration policy; and the Kyoto Protocol; and the “New North,” and North Pole expeditions; and oil sands; and power transmission systems; and the Siberian Curse; and UNCLOS; and water resources; and wind power; and winter roads; and World War II,
canals
Canterell field
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
carbon emissions: and biofuels; and carbon capture technology; and climate change; fertilization effect; and hydrogen fuel cells; and the Kyoto Protocol; and melting permafrost; monitoring levels of; natural cycles of; and oil resources; persistence in atmosphere; and renewable energy resources
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Carson, Rachel
Carter, Jimmy
Caspian Sea
cellulosic ethanol
Central Asia
Central Valley
Chad
Chávez, Hugo
Chernobyl power plant
Chicago Diversion
Chile
Chilingarov, Artur
China: and aging populations; and Arctic resources; and coal resources; and economic growth models; and global warming; and human settlement patterns; and melting permafrost; and natural gas resources; and nuclear power; and population control policies; and power transmission systems; and the Russian Far East; and Russian immigration policy; and shifting economic power; Singapore as model for; unification of; and urbanization; and water resources; and wind power
The Christian Science Monitor
Chu, Steven
Churchill, Manitoba
Churchill, Winston
civil rights movement
“clean coal,”
climate change: and aboriginal peoples; and abrupt-change scenarios; and agriculture; and the Arctic; and climate models; and coal; connection to other global forces; and demographic trends; described; and drought; and electric vehicles; and endangered species; and geophysical impacts; and inertia of global forces; and medieval warming period; and melting ice sheets; and melting permafrost and migration of species; monitoring climate; and national security; and nuclear power; and ocean temperatures; and prospects for NORCs; and risk management; and river runoff; and sea ice; and sea levels; and short-term fluctuations; and snowpack and glaciers; SRES scenarios; and water resources; and winter roads
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
coal
Cohen, Joel