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States: and aboriginal peoples; aging population of; and the Arctic Council; and Arctic islands; and Arctic policy; and Arctic resources; and Arctic transportation routes; and Canadian relations; and coal resources; and concentrated solar thermal (CSP) power; and demographic trends; and economic growth models; and ethanol production; and global warming; and globalization; immigration policy of; and natural gas resources; and the “New North,” and NORCs; and North Pole expeditions; and nuclear power; and power transmission systems; and sea levels; and shifting economic power; and the Siberian Curse; and UNCLOS; and water resources; and wind power

urbanization: and aging populations; and the Arctic; and climate change; and economic growth; and energy consumption; pace of; and prospects for NORCs; and resource supplies; and sea levels; and shifting economic power; and the “twenty-first century” city; and water resources

U.S. Army

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

U.S. Climate Change Action Partnership

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Committee

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

U.S. Minerals and Management Service

U.S. National Intelligence Council

U.S. National Science Foundation

Uzbekistan

Vancouver, British Colombia

Varlomov, Alexei

Venezuela

Verkhoyansk, Russia

Vietnam

Vikings

volcanoes

Volta River

Vörösmarty, Charlie

Walmart

warfare

Washington Consensus

Water Follies (Glennon)

water resources: and agriculture; aquifers; and climate change; crises related to; and drought; and energy consumption; export projects; and foreign policy; and global water stress; and groundwater pumping; and hydropower; importance of; and the Intertropical Convergence Zone; large water projects; measurement of; and population growth; and privatization; prospects for; and runoff; and sanitation; and snowpack and glaciers; and transboundary rivers; and urbanization; and virtual water trade

WaterGAP

Watt-Cloutier, Sheila

weather patterns. See also climate change

Wellinghoff, Jeff

wells

West Antarctic Ice Sheet

West Bank

West Siberia

When the Rivers Run Dry (Pearce)

wildfires

wildlife

Williamson, John

wind power

winter roads

Wolf, Aaron

women’s empowerment

World Bank

World Health Organization (WHO)

World Trade Organization (WTO)

World War I,

World War II,

World Water Council

xenophobia

Yakut people

Yakutsk

Yamal Peninsula

Yemen

Yongwei Sheng

Younger Dryas event

Yucca Mountain

Yugakir people

Yukon Territory

Yupik people

Zimbabwe

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

CHAPTER 1 - Martell’s Hairy Prize

PART ONE - THE PUSH

CHAPTER 2 - A Tale of Teeming Cities

CHAPTER 3 - Iron, Oil, and Wind

CHAPTER 4 - California Browning, Shanghai Drowning

PART TWO - THE PULL

CHAPTER 5 - Two Weddings and a Computer Model

CHAPTER 6 - One if by Land, Two if by Sea

CHAPTER 7 - The Third Wave

CHAPTER 8 - Good-bye Harpoon, Hello Briefcase

PART THREE - ALTERNATE ENDINGS

CHAPTER 9 - The Pentagon Report

CHAPTER 10 - The New North

NOTES

CREDITS

Acknowledgements

INDEX