Author : Klaus Dodds,Jamie Woodward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198819288
The Arctic: a Very Short Introduction by Klaus Dodds,Jamie Woodward Pdf
"The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction provides an account of the Arctic, its physical environment, and its people. The Arctic is demanding global attention as it warms, melts, and thaws in a manner that threatens not just its 4 million inhabitants, but the whole planet. The reduction of the Arctic to its changing environment would ignore the complexities of the region and its potential. This VSI explores key issues facing the region today, from geopolitics to global warming. It examines the causes and effects of cultural, physical, ecological, political, and economic change in the Arctic, and considers its uncertain future"--