The Real Population Bomb: Megacities, Global Security & the Map of the Future
P. H. Liotta
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Description for The Real Population Bomb: Megacities, Global Security & the Map of the Future
Hardback. By 2025, twenty-seven cities will have populations greater than ten million - the common measure by which an urban population constitutes a 'megacity.' This title argues that megacities will become havens for terrorists and criminal networks as well as centers of major environmental depletion. Num Pages: 224 pages, figures; notes; bibliography; index. BIC Classification: JFSG; JHBD; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 528.
Shocking in description and crammed with detail, this book is about where and how geopolitics plays out in the twenty-first century.
Drawing on the authors’ three decades of international field work and seasoned policy analysis, The Real Population Bomb hits like a pile driver. Its essential truths can no longer be ignored: we have never been here before in human history. The choices we make in this next decade will determine the fate of human societies.
By 2025, twenty-seven cities will have populations greater than ten million and over six hundred cities will have populations greater than ... Read more
Shocking in description and crammed with detail, this book is about where and how geopolitics plays out in the twenty-first century.
Drawing on the authors’ three decades of international field work and seasoned policy analysis, The Real Population Bomb hits like a pile driver. Its essential truths can no longer be ignored: we have never been here before in human history. The choices we make in this next decade will determine the fate of human societies.
By 2025, twenty-seven cities will have populations greater than ten million and over six hundred cities will have populations greater than ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
532 g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781597975513
SKU
V9781597975513
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Ref
99-1
About P. H. Liotta
P. H. Liotta is the author of eighteen books, which include translation, poetry, scholarly work, and a novel about Iran, Diamond's Compass (Algonquin Books, 1993). As a member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he shared in the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. James F. Miskel is the author of Disaster Response and Homeland ... Read more
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