Description
Book SynopsisIn August 2007 a Russian flag was planted under the North Pole during a scientific expedition triggering speculation about a new scramble for resources beneath the thawing ice.
Trade Review"A rich historical, geopolitical and social anthropoligical account of soverign space-making practices."
International Affairs
"Leading polar scholars Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall reveal the nuances in the scramble for the poles, as they are unveiled by the potent combination of climate change and enabling technologies in a context of resource pursuit and the changing global order. Polar security in the broadest sense, depends on constraining this scramble over coming decades."
Alan D. Hemmings, Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury
"This powerful book details the myriad contrasts and connections between the contemporary Polar Regions. Using the metaphor of scrambles, Dodds and Nuttall provide a major, comparative statement for the future social and political study of the poles."
Richard Powell, University of Oxford
"A thought-provoking book."
Polar Record
Table of ContentsPreface
List of Figures and Maps
Chapter 1: Scrambling for the Extraordinary
Chapter 2: Making and Remaking the Polar Regions
Chapter 3: Under Ice and Snow
Chapter 4: Governing the Arctic and Antarctic
Chapter 5: New Resource Frontiers
Chapter 6: Opening up the Poles
Chapter 7: Polar Demands and Demanding Polar Regions
Notes
References
