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28 Jennifer Kho, “The Largest Cleantech VC: China,” GigaOM, February 26, 2010; also see “Towards a Global Green Recovery: Recommendations for Immediate G20 Action” (report submitted to the G20 London Summit, April 2, 2009).
29 “EU Energy Chief Wants 1 Trillion Euro Network Revamp,” Reuters, November 10, 2010.
30 Quoted in Christian Parenti, “The Case for EPA Action,” The Nation, April 15, 2010.
31 On IBM, see Linda Weiss and Elizabeth Thurbon, “The Business of Buying American: Public Procurement As Trade Strategy in the USA,” Review of International Political Economy 13, no. 5 (December 2006): 701–724: 704. For a view of the Indian government’s role in building up a technology sector with its purchasing power, see Rajeeva Sinha, “Government Procurement and Technological Capability: Case of Indian Electrical Equipment Industry,” Economic and Political Weekly 29, no. 48 (November 26, 1994): 142–147.
32 For discussion of leftist green theories of capitalism, see Robyn Eckersley, Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992); Ted Benton, Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice (London: Verso, 1993).
33 John Bellemy Foster, Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000).
34 Karl Marx, Capital (New York: Penguin Classics, 1976), 1: 637.
35 Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (New York: Routledge, 1966), 41.
36 Heather Rogers, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage (New York: New Press, 2006).
INDEX
Adaptation to climate change
definition/description
political adaptation
speed of change and
technical adaptation
See also Military and security/climate change; specific locations
Afghanistan
1973 coup d’état
Cold War competition in
Daud and
Durand Line and
environmental degradation of
Ghor Province
India-Pakistan conflicts and
India relationship
Pashtuns and
Saur Revolution
Soviet Union and
Taliban and
war in
Wardak
Zahir Shah’s reign
Afghanistan/climate change
agriculture and
catastrophic convergence with
deforestation
desertification
droughts (2006–2010)
droughts/famines (1969–1973)
floods (2010)
Kabul River
Nangarhar Province’s extreme weather
poppy as drought resistant
poppy eradication/effects
poppy growing/industry
snowmelt/rainfall changes
Taliban paying fighters and
violence and
Africa
1960s/1970s droughts and famines
Cuba and
desertification and
European “Scramble for Africa,”
Great Rift Valley
imported weapons and
kleptocracy
map
West/Central guerrilla armies
See also East Africa; specific locations
Africa’s pastoralist corridor
cattle importance
description
desertification
drought/flash flooding
pastoralists’ status
responses to water shortages
road trip in
Small Arms Survey
state failure and
violence causality
violence/gun culture
See also East African cattle raids; Kenya; Turkana; Uganda
Africa’s pastoralist corridor/cattle raiding
1970s droughts and
1980s drought and
British colonization and
causality
cheap guns and
Karamojong gunmen/Iteso conflicts
organized crime/political bosses and
resource conflicts
“traditional” cattle raiding
Agamben, Giorgio
Age of Consequences (Campbell et al.)
Agnew, Spiro
Agroforestry
Aidid, Mohamed Farrah
Al-Maliki, Nouri
Al Qaeda
Alves, Dejacir
Amin, Hafizullah
Amin, Idi
background
See also Uganda under Amin
Anderson, David
Andres, Peter
Angola
Anti-Intellectualism in American History (Hofstadter)
Anwar, Raja
Apache
Araujo, Osmar Careinro
Arias, Enrique Desmond
Ariong, Lucas
Asia
map(fig.)
See also Central Asian new states; specific countries
Bakiyev, Kurmanbek
Banana wars
Bangladesh
Barnett, Thomas
Barnett’s Core/Gap
Barre, Mohammed Siad
Barry, Tom
Bat populations decline
Beals, Carlton
Beck, Glenn
Bek, Ibrahim
Berlin Conference (1885)
Bevin, Ernest
Bheem, Komaram
Bhutto, Murtaza
Bin Laden, Osama
Blair, Dennis C.
Bolivia
climate change mitigation