Tropic of chaos : climate change and the new geography of violence

Tropic of chaos : climate change and the new geography of violence

An award-winning journalist combines on-the-ground reportage with incisive analysis to reveal the disturbing connection between climate change and increased social and political violence

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parenti, Christian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Nation Books , c2012
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Political aspects
Geopolitics > Environmental aspects
Political violence > Environmental aspects
Violence > Environmental aspects
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Who killed Ekaru Loruman?
  • 2. Military soothsayers
  • 3. War for a small planet : adaptation as counterinsurgency
  • 4. Geopolitics of a cattle raid
  • 5. Monsoons and tipping points
  • 6. The rise and fall of East African states
  • 7. Somali apocalypse
  • 8. Theorizing failed states
  • 9. Drugs, drought and Jihad : environmental history of the Afghanistan War
  • 10. Kyrgyzstan's little climate war
  • 11. India and Pakistan : glaciers, rivers, and unfinished business
  • 12. India's drought rebels
  • 13. Rio's agony : from extreme weather to "planet of slums"
  • 14. Golgotha Mexicana : climate refugees, free trade, and the war next door
  • 15. American walls and demagogues
  • 16. Implications and possibilities

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